com.bea.p13n.expression.operator
Class ClassForName

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.bea.p13n.expression.internal.ComplexExpressionImpl
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        +--com.bea.p13n.expression.operator.Operator
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              +--com.bea.p13n.expression.operator.ClassForName

public final class ClassForName

extends Operator

implements UnaryOperator

Implementation of the ClassForName operator. Returns an newly constructed object by invoking a specified constructor.
Input 1: A String object (or expression that evaluates to a String) that defines the class name for the Class instance to be retrieved.
Returns: A Class instance for the named class.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

ClassForName()
Constructs an empty operator and operands can be added later by calling addSubExpression() on this.

ClassForName(java.lang.Object name)
Constructs this by associating the given name.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	getOperand()
java.lang.Class[]	getParameterSignature()

Methods inherited from class com.bea.p13n.expression.operator.Operator

leftHandSide, operand, rightHandSide

Methods inherited from class com.bea.p13n.expression.internal.ComplexExpressionImpl

addListener, addSubExpression, clearCache, clone, createProxyExpression, equals, getCachedValue, getParent, getSource, getSubExpression, getSubExpressionCount, getUserData, hashCode, isCached, isCacheEnabled, isEqualitySubExpression, notifyListeners, removeAllSubExpressions, removeListener, removeSubExpression, removeSubExpression, setCachedValue, setCacheEnabled, setParent, setSource, setSubExpression, setUserData, toString, write

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ClassForName

public ClassForName()

Constructs an empty operator and operands can be added later by calling addSubExpression() on this.

ClassForName

public ClassForName(java.lang.Object name)

Constructs this by associating the given name.

Parameters:

name - A string object (or an expression that evaluates to a string), this string defines the name of the class to be loaded.

Method Detail

getParameterSignature

public java.lang.Class[] getParameterSignature()

Overrides:

getParameterSignature in class com.bea.p13n.expression.internal.ComplexExpressionImpl

getOperand

public java.lang.Object getOperand()

Specified by:

getOperand in interface UnaryOperator