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

Method Detail

addProperty

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

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

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

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.