com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.taglibrary
Class CompositeCustomTag

java.lang.Object
  com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.taglibrary.CompositeCustomTag

All Implemented Interfaces:

IConfigurable, ICustomTag

public class CompositeCustomTag

extends java.lang.Object

implements ICustomTag

Enables a set of ICustomTags to be composed using an HTML template.

XML Configuration Template:

  <SystemObject type="CustomTag" name="[ name of this composite tag ]" 
                   class="com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.taglibrary.CompositeCustomTag" >

    <!-- An HTML template with markers for tags like this: {TAG_} where tagID maps to -->
    <!-- a tagID= attribute of a nested ICustomTag -->
    <Template>
      <![CDATA[  The HTML template with tag markers ]]>
    </Template>

    <!-- One or more Tag elements: -->
    <Tag ID="[ tag id matching one of the elements in the template ]"
            class="[ class of com.raritantechnologies.searchApp.taglibrary.ICustomTag ]" >
      <!-- configuration details specific to implementation class -->
    </Tag>

    <!-- etc... -->

  </SystemObject>
 

Constructor Summary

CompositeCustomTag()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getBody(RaritanPageContext rpc) Returns the tag body.
java.lang.String	getRenderedTemplate(java.util.HashMap renderMap)
void	initialize(org.w3c.dom.Element elem) Initializes the object from an XML tag or element.
void	initialize(java.util.Map initParams)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CompositeCustomTag

public CompositeCustomTag()

Method Detail

getBody

public java.lang.String getBody(RaritanPageContext rpc)

Description copied from interface: ICustomTag

Returns the tag body.

Specified by:

getBody in interface ICustomTag

Parameters:

rpc - Platform-neutral page context ( can be used in non J2EE environments such as ASP).

Returns:

The tag body text string.

getRenderedTemplate

public java.lang.String getRenderedTemplate(java.util.HashMap renderMap)

initialize

public void initialize(org.w3c.dom.Element elem)

Description copied from interface: IConfigurable

Initializes the object from an XML tag or element. This method is called by the Framework as part of the application initializtion. see ConfigurationManager, XMLConfigurationManager, XMLSearchFieldMapFactory, XMLSearchSourceFactory. Configurable objects that are owned or contained by other configurable objects will be initialized in by the parent object.

Specified by:

initialize in interface IConfigurable

initialize

public void initialize(java.util.Map initParams)

Specified by:

initialize in interface ICustomTag