org.faktorips.runtime
Interface IEnumValueLookupService<T>

public interface IEnumValueLookupService<T>

A service that can look up the values for exactly one enumeration type in a data source that is not the Faktor-IPS runtime repository. For example, a data source could be a database table, an XML file or a web service.

A lookup service can be registered with the repository. The repository uses the service to look up the values for the enumeration type specified by getEnumTypeClass(). Clients of the repository can access enumeration values without knowing whether they are stored in the Faktor-IPS runtime repository or come from another data source.

Author:

Jan Ortmann

See Also:

IRuntimeRepository.addEnumValueLookupService(IEnumValueLookupService), IRuntimeRepository.getEnumValues(Class), IRuntimeRepository.getEnumValue(Class, Object)

Method Summary

Class<T>	getEnumTypeClass() Returns the enumeration class, e.g.
T	getEnumValue(Object id) Returns the value identified by the given id or null if no value exists with that id.
List<T>	getEnumValues() Returns the enumeration values.
XmlAdapter<?,T>	getXmlAdapter() Returns an XmlAdapter that should be used for marshaling/unmarshaling data with JAXB for the enumeration class this is a lookup service for.

Method Detail

getEnumTypeClass

Class<T> getEnumTypeClass()

Returns the enumeration class, e.g. org.foo.PaymentMode.

getEnumValues

List<T> getEnumValues()

Returns the enumeration values. So the return type is a list, it is expected that every value is contained only once. IRuntimeRepository.getEnumValues(Class) will return the values in the order defined by this list. The runtime repository does NOT cache the values, this is the responsibility of the lookup service as it depends on the kind of data if caching is ok, or when the data needs to be refreshed.

getEnumValue

T getEnumValue(Object id)

Returns the value identified by the given id or null if no value exists with that id.

getXmlAdapter

XmlAdapter<?,T> getXmlAdapter()

Returns an XmlAdapter that should be used for marshaling/unmarshaling data with JAXB for the enumeration class this is a lookup service for. Returns null if it is not required to use a special XmlAdapter instance. In most cases you return an XmlAdapter here if the default mechanism provided by Faktor-IPS does not meet your requirements.

IMPORT NOTE: It is not enough to just return the XmlAdapter instance here, you also have to specify the XmlAdapter class in the generated code! To understand this, you have to understand how JAXB determines the XMLAdapter to use. For the exact details, please look at the JAXB specification or tutorials.

Basically it works like this. If you have enabled the option to generate JAXB annotations, Faktor-IPS generates a default XmlAdapter for each enumeration type that does not contain the values. The adapter is required as for those types no Java Enum is generated, but a Java class implementing the typesafe enumeration pattern. This generated class has an annotation that specifies that the generated XmlAdapter should be used by default for all attributes using the enumeration type as data type. For example given the enumeration PaymentMode, Faktor-IPS generates the adapter PaymentModeXmlAdapter and the JAXB annotation in the class PaymentMode would be @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(PaymentModeXmlAdapter.class)

The easiest option to use your own adapter is to change the tag @generated to @generated NOT and change the annotation, for example to @XmlJavaTypeAdapter(MyPaymentModeXmlAdapter.class) Why isn't this enough? It could be, it depends on your requirements. By default JAXB creates an instance of your XmlAdapter class (MyPaymentModeXmlAdapter) by using the default constructor. When unmarshalling the XML, you basically get the identifier stored in the XML and have to return an instance of your enumeration class. In most cases you need the (this) enum value lookup service to do so. The easiest thing to get a reference to this service is by returning an XmlAdapter that has a reference to it, right here. If you create a new JAXBContext with IRuntimeRepository.newJAXBContext() the adapter returned by this method is added to the Marshaller and Unmarshaller created by the JAXBContext via JAXBContext.createMarshaller() and JAXBContext.createUnmarshaller()

See Also:

IRuntimeRepository.newJAXBContext(), JAXBContext.createMarshaller(), JAXBContext.createUnmarshaller(), Marshaller.setAdapter(XmlAdapter), Unmarshaller.setAdapter(XmlAdapter)