org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.ui.data
Interface DataObject

All Known Subinterfaces:
BeanDOAdapter, DataSet, KeyedDataObject, MutableDataObject
All Known Implementing Classes:
DictionaryData, IntrospectionAdapter, LinkDataObject, MapData

public interface DataObject

The DataObject interface provides an extremely simple API for retrieving arbitrarily structured data. All "queries" are based simply on a selection string. It is entirely up to an implementation of this interface to define the syntax for these strings.

Version:
$Name: $ ($Revision: adfrt/faces/adf-faces-impl/src/main/java/oracle/adfinternal/view/faces/ui/data/DataObject.java#0 $) $Date: 10-nov-2005.18:56:30 $
Author:
The Oracle ADF Faces Team

Method Summary
 java.lang.Object selectValue(UIXRenderingContext context, java.lang.Object select)
          Given a select string, returns the value matching that selection.
 

Method Detail

selectValue

java.lang.Object selectValue(UIXRenderingContext context,
                             java.lang.Object select)
Given a select string, returns the value matching that selection. It is legal to return null if the select key doesn't match anything.

Parameters:
context - the current rendering context
select - a select criterion, syntax as defined by the data object


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