tauzaman.property
Class PropertyRepository

java.lang.Object
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  +--tauzaman.property.PropertyRepository

public class PropertyRepository

extends java.lang.Object

PropertyRepository class manages a pool of Properties. For example:

    PropertyRepository cr = new PropertyRepository();
    // null means load every single Property in the url
    cr.loadProperty(new URL("http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~cdyreson/pub/tauZaman/defaultProperties.xml"), null);
 

For now it does not have unloadProperty() behavior.

See Also:

Property

Status:

design complete, implementation complete

Constructor Summary

PropertyRepository()
Constructs a PropertyRepository object.

Method Summary

boolean	isValidPropertyName(java.lang.String propertyName) Returns true if given property name is one of the valid names.
Property[]	loadProperty(java.net.URL url, java.lang.String[] names) Loads Property(ies) into this PropertyRepository and also returns them.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

PropertyRepository

public PropertyRepository()

Constructs a PropertyRepository object.

Method Detail

isValidPropertyName

public boolean isValidPropertyName(java.lang.String propertyName)

Returns true if given property name is one of the valid names. False otherwise.

Parameters:

propertyName - String name of the Property being checked

Returns:

boolean, which is true if given property name is valid false otherwise

loadProperty

public Property[] loadProperty(java.net.URL url,
                               java.lang.String[] names)
                        throws PropertyFormationException

Loads Property(ies) into this PropertyRepository and also returns them.

Parameters:

url - URL pointing to Property Specification file

names - String names of the Property(ies) that are wanted to be loaded

Returns:

an array of Property(ies) loaded

Throws:

PropertyFormationException - if any abnormal condition occurs when forming Property(ies)