com.bea.wlai.common
Interface IPropertiedDescriptor

All Superinterfaces:

IDescriptor, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

IAdapterDescriptor, IConnectionFactoryDescriptor, IEventDescriptor, IServiceDescriptor

public interface IPropertiedDescriptor

extends IDescriptor

Represents a descriptor that can contain a set of properties (name/value).

Method Summary

String	addProperty(String name, String value) Add a property to this descriptor.
String	getProperty(String name) Get the value of a property in this descriptor.
Iterator	listPropertyNames() Returns an iterator over all properties set for this descriptor.
String	removeProperty(String name) Remove a property from this descriptor.

Methods inherited from interface com.bea.wlai.common.IDescriptor

fromXML, fromXML, fromXML, getDescription, getName, isReadOnly, makeReadOnly, setDescription, setName, toXML, toXML, toXML

Method Detail

addProperty

public String addProperty(String name,
                          String value)

Add a property to this descriptor. If a property with the given name already exists in this descriptor, its value will be replaced with the given value.

Parameters:

name - The name of the property.

value - The value of the property.

Returns:

The value that was previously mapped to the given name, or null if no value was mapped or the mapped value was null.

removeProperty

public String removeProperty(String name)

Remove a property from this descriptor.

Parameters:

name - The name of the property.

Returns:

The value that was mapped to the given name, or null if no value was mapped or the mapped value was null.

getProperty

public String getProperty(String name)

Get the value of a property in this descriptor. If no property with the given name exists in this descriptor, null is returned.

Parameters:

name - The name of the property.

Returns:

The value of the property, or null if the property does not exist.

listPropertyNames

public Iterator listPropertyNames()

Returns an iterator over all properties set for this descriptor.

Returns:

An Iterator over the names (String) of all properties for this descriptor.