Package org.dspace.browse

Class ItemListConfig

java.lang.Object

org.dspace.browse.ItemListConfig

public class ItemListConfig
extends Object

Class to mediate with the item list configuration

Author:

Richard Jones

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ItemListConfig()	Create a new instance of the Item list configuration.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String[]	getMetadata(int col)	What metadata is to go in the given column number?
String[]	interpretField(String mfield, String init)	Take a string representation of a metadata field, and return it as an array.
int	numCols()	how many columns are there?

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ItemListConfig

public ItemListConfig()
               throws BrowseException

Create a new instance of the Item list configuration. This loads all the required information from configuration

Throws:

BrowseException - if count error

Method Detail

numCols

public int numCols()

how many columns are there?

Returns:

the number of columns

getMetadata

public String[] getMetadata(int col)

What metadata is to go in the given column number?

Parameters:

col - column

Returns:

array of metadata

interpretField

public final String[] interpretField(String mfield,
                                     String init)
                              throws IOException

Take a string representation of a metadata field, and return it as an array. This is just a convenient utility method to basically break the metadata representation up by its delimiter (.), and stick it in an array, inserting the value of the init parameter when there is no metadata field part.

Parameters:

mfield - the string representation of the metadata

init - the default value of the array elements

Returns:

a three element array with schema, element and qualifier respectively

Throws:

IOException - if IO error