/*
- * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 The Mir-coders group
+ * Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 The Mir-coders group
*
* This file is part of Mir.
*
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*
* In addition, as a special exception, The Mir-coders gives permission to link
- * the code of this program with the com.oreilly.servlet library, any library
- * licensed under the Apache Software License, The Sun (tm) Java Advanced
- * Imaging library (JAI), The Sun JIMI library (or with modified versions of
- * the above that use the same license as the above), and distribute linked
- * combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General Public
- * License in all respects for all of the code used other than the above
- * mentioned libraries. If you modify this file, you may extend this exception
- * to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do
- * not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
+ * the code of this program with any library licensed under the Apache Software License,
+ * The Sun (tm) Java Advanced Imaging library (JAI), The Sun JIMI library
+ * (or with modified versions of the above that use the same license as the above),
+ * and distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the
+ * GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
+ * the above mentioned libraries. If you modify this file, you may extend this
+ * exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so.
+ * If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
*/
-
-/**
- * Base class the entities are derived from. Provides base functionality of
- * an entity. Entities are used to represent rows of a database table.<p>
- */
-
package mir.entity;
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.List;
-import mir.config.MirPropertiesConfiguration;
-import mir.config.MirPropertiesConfiguration.PropertiesConfigExc;
-import mir.misc.Logfile;
-import mir.misc.StringUtil;
-import mir.storage.StorageObject;
-import mir.storage.StorageObjectExc;
-import mir.storage.StorageObjectFailure;
-import freemarker.template.SimpleScalar;
-import freemarker.template.TemplateHashModel;
-import freemarker.template.TemplateModel;
-import freemarker.template.TemplateModelException;
-import freemarker.template.TemplateModelRoot;
+import mir.storage.DatabaseExc;
+import mir.storage.DatabaseFailure;
/**
- * Base Class of Entities
- * Interfacing TemplateHashModel and TemplateModelRoot to be freemarker compliant
- *
- * @version $Id: Entity.java,v 1.13 2003/01/25 17:45:17 idfx Exp $
- * @author rk
+ * An <code>Entity</code> represents a persistent data object, typically
+ * stored in a database.<p>
*
+ * @version $Id: Entity.java,v 1.21.2.12 2005/03/26 11:26:23 zapata Exp $
*/
-public class Entity implements TemplateHashModel, TemplateModelRoot
-{
- protected static MirPropertiesConfiguration configuration;
- protected static Logfile theLog;
-
- private boolean changed;
- protected HashMap theValuesHash; // tablekey / value
- protected StorageObject theStorageObject;
- protected ArrayList streamedInput=null;
-
-
- static {
- try {
- configuration = MirPropertiesConfiguration.instance();
- } catch (PropertiesConfigExc e) {
- e.printStackTrace();
- }
- theLog = Logfile.getInstance(configuration.getStringWithHome("Entity.Logfile"));
- }
-
- public Entity() {
- this.changed = false;
- }
-
- /**
- * Constructor
- * @param StorageObject The StorageObject of the Entity.
- */
- public Entity (StorageObject StorageObject) {
- this();
- setStorage(StorageObject);
- }
-
- /*
- * Sets the StorageObject of the Entity.
- */
- public void setStorage (StorageObject storage) {
- this.theStorageObject = storage;
- }
-
+public interface Entity {
/**
- * Sets the values of the Entity.
- * @param theStringValues HashMap containing the new values of the Entity
+ * Sets the values of the Entity. (Only to be called by the Storage Object)
+ *
+ * @param aMap Map containing the new values of the Entity
*/
- public void setValues(HashMap theStringValues)
- {
- /** @todo should be synchronized */
- if (theStringValues!=null) {
- theValuesHash = new HashMap();
- String aKey;
- Set set = theStringValues.keySet();
- Iterator it = set.iterator();
- int size = set.size();
- for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
- aKey = (String)it.next();
- theValuesHash.put(aKey, (String)theStringValues.get(aKey));
- }
- }
- else theLog.printWarning("Entity.setValues called with null HashMap");
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns whether the content of the Entity has changed.
- * @return true wenn ja, sonst false
- */
- public boolean changed () {
- return changed;
- }
+ public void setFieldValues(Map aMap);
/**
* Returns the primary key of the Entity.
* @return String Id
*/
- public String getId () {
- return (String) getValue(theStorageObject.getIdName());
- }
+ public String getId();
/**
- * Defines the primary key of the Entity
+ * Defines the primary key of the Entity (only to be set by the Database)
* @param id
*/
- public void setId (String id) {
- theValuesHash.put(theStorageObject.getIdName(), id);
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns the value of a field by field name.
- * @param field The name of the field
- * @return value of the field
- */
- public String getValue (String field) {
- String returnValue = null;
- if (field != null)
- {
- if (field.equals("webdb_create_formatted"))
- {
- if (hasValueForField("webdb_create"))
- returnValue=StringUtil.dateToReadableDate(getValue("webdb_create"));
- }
- else if (field.equals("webdb_lastchange_formatted"))
- {
- if (hasValueForField("webdb_lastchange"))
- returnValue=StringUtil.dateToReadableDate(getValue("webdb_lastchange"));
- }
- else
- returnValue = (String)theValuesHash.get(field);
- }
- return returnValue;
- }
-
- public boolean hasValueForField(String field)
- {
- if (theValuesHash!=null)
- return theValuesHash.containsKey(field);
- return false;
- }
+ public void setId(String id);
/**
- * Insers Entity into the database via StorageObject
+ * Insers Entity into the database via Database
* @return Primary Key of the Entity
- * @exception StorageObjectException
+ * @exception DatabaseExc
*/
- public String insert () throws StorageObjectExc {
- theLog.printDebugInfo("Entity: trying to insert ...");
- if (theStorageObject != null) {
- return theStorageObject.insert((Entity)this);
- }
- else
- throw new StorageObjectExc("Kein StorageObject gesetzt!");
- }
+ public String insert() throws DatabaseExc;
/**
* Saves changes of this Entity to the database
- * @exception StorageObjectException
+ * @exception DatabaseFailure
*/
- public void update () throws StorageObjectFailure {
- theStorageObject.update((Entity)this);
- }
+ public void update() throws DatabaseFailure;
/**
* Sets the value for a field. Issues a log message if the field name
* supplied was not found in the Entity.
* @param theProp The field name whose value has to be set
* @param theValue The new value of the field
- * @exception StorageObjectException
+ * @exception DatabaseFailure
*/
- public void setValueForProperty (String theProp, String theValue)
- throws StorageObjectFailure {
- this.changed = true;
- if (isField(theProp))
- theValuesHash.put(theProp, theValue);
- else {
- theLog.printWarning("Property not found: " + theProp+theValue);
- }
-
- }
+ public void setFieldValue(String theProp, String theValue);
/**
- * Returns the field names of the Entity as ArrayListe.
- * @return ArrayList with field names
- * @exception StorageObjectException is throuwn if database access was impossible
+ * Returns the field names of the Entity
*/
- public ArrayList getFields () throws StorageObjectFailure {
- return theStorageObject.getFields();
- }
+ public List getFieldNames() throws DatabaseFailure;
/**
- * Returns an int[] with the types of the fields
- * @return int[] that contains the types of the fields
- * @exception StorageObjectException
- */
- public int[] getTypes () throws StorageObjectFailure {
- return theStorageObject.getTypes();
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns an ArrayList with field names
- * @return List with field names
- * @exception StorageObjectException
- */
- public ArrayList getLabels () throws StorageObjectFailure {
- return theStorageObject.getLabels();
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns a Hashmap with all values of the Entity.
- * @return HashMap with field name as key and the corresponding values
- *
- * @deprecated This method is deprecated and will be deleted in the next release.
- * Entity interfaces freemarker.template.TemplateHashModel now and can
- * be used in the same way as SimpleHash.
-
+ * Returns the value of a field by field name.
+ * @param field The name of the field
+ * @return value of the field
*/
- public HashMap getValues() {
- theLog.printWarning("## using deprecated Entity.getValues() - a waste of resources");
- return theValuesHash;
- }
-
- /**
- * Returns an ArrayList with all database fields that can
- * be evaluated as streamedInput.
- * Could be automated by the types (blob, etc.)
- * Until now to be created manually in the inheriting class
- *
- * Liefert einen ArrayList mit allen Datenbankfeldern, die
- * als streamedInput ausgelesen werden muessen.
- * Waere automatisierbar ueber die types (blob, etc.)
- * Bisher manuell anzulegen in der erbenden Klasse
- */
+ public String getFieldValue(String field);
- public ArrayList streamedInput() {
- return streamedInput;
- }
+ public boolean hasFieldValue(String field);
- /** Returns whether fieldName is a valid field name of this Entity.
- * @param fieldName
- * @return true in case fieldName is a field name, else false.
- * @exception StorageObjectException
+ /** Returns whether fieldName is a valid field name of this Entity.
*/
- public boolean isField (String fieldName) throws StorageObjectFailure {
- return theStorageObject.getFields().contains(fieldName);
- }
-
-
-
- protected void throwStorageObjectFailure (Exception e, String wo)
- throws StorageObjectFailure {
- theLog.printError( e.toString() + " Funktion: "+ wo);
- e.printStackTrace(System.out);
- throw new StorageObjectFailure("Storage Object Exception in entity", e);
- }
-
- // Now implements freemarkers TemplateHashModel
- // two methods have to be overridden:
- // 1. public boolean isEmpty() throws TemplateModelException
- // 2. public TemplateModel get(java.lang.String key) throws TemplateModelException
-
- public boolean isEmpty() throws TemplateModelException
- {
- return (theValuesHash==null || theValuesHash.isEmpty()) ? true : false;
- }
-
- public TemplateModel get(java.lang.String key) throws TemplateModelException
- {
- return new SimpleScalar(getValue(key));
- }
-
- public void put(java.lang.String key, TemplateModel model)
- {
- // putting should only take place via setValue and is limited to the
- // database fields associated with the entity. no additional freemarker
- // stuff will be available via Entity.
- theLog.printWarning("### put is called on entity! - the values will be lost!");
- }
-
- public void remove(java.lang.String key)
- {
- // do we need this?
- }
-
-
- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-
-
+ public boolean hasField(String aFieldName) throws DatabaseFailure;
}