com.bea.p13n.rules.advislets
Class RulesInputTransform

java.lang.Object
  com.bea.p13n.advisor.AbstractAdviceTransform
      com.bea.p13n.rules.advislets.RulesInputTransform

All Implemented Interfaces

AdviceConstants, AdviceRequestConstants, AdviceTransform, AdvisletChainElement

public class RulesInputTransform
extends AbstractAdviceTransform

An AdviceTransform that converts AdviceRequest parameters into the input objects for the Rules Advislet.

The following parameters are put in a collection and associated with the RULES_INPUT_OBJECTS key:

• The current HTTP Request
• The current HTTP Session
• The current User
• The current TimeInstant
• The current Time
• The current Date

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.bea.p13n.advisor.AdviceConstants

RESULTS

Fields inherited from interface com.bea.p13n.advisor.AdviceRequestConstants

CATALOG_QUERY_WRAPPER, CONTENT_APPEND_QUERY_STRING, CONTENT_MANAGER, CONTENT_MANAGER_HOME, CONTENT_QUERY_CONTEXT_PARAMS, CONTENT_QUERY_MAX_ITEMS, CONTENT_QUERY_NODE, CONTENT_QUERY_SORT_BY, CONTENT_QUERY_STRING, CONTENT_SEARCH_PATHS, CONTEXT_HANDLER, DATE, HTTP_REQUEST, HTTP_SESSION, NOW, RULES_FILTER_CLASS, RULES_FILTER_CLASS_NAME, RULES_INPUT_OBJECTS, RULES_RULENAME_TO_FIRE, RULES_RULESET_NAME, SHOPPING_CART, TIME, TIME_INSTANT, USER

Constructor Summary

RulesInputTransform(Advisor advisor, Metadata metadata)
Construct an instance of this object and bind it to its Advisor and Metadata instances.

Method Summary

void	transform(Advice input, AdviceRequest output) Maps the 'well-knows' input objects into the RULES_INPUT_OBJECTS List to be passed into the rule engine.

Methods inherited from class com.bea.p13n.advisor.AbstractAdviceTransform

getMetadata, initialize, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

RulesInputTransform

public RulesInputTransform(Advisor advisor,
                           Metadata metadata)

Construct an instance of this object and bind it to its Advisor and Metadata instances.

Parameters

advisor - the Advisor for this object.

metadata - the Metadata for this object.

Method Detail

transform

public void transform(Advice input,
                      AdviceRequest output)
               throws AdvisorException

Maps the 'well-knows' input objects into the RULES_INPUT_OBJECTS List to be passed into the rule engine.

Specified by:

transform in interface AdviceTransform

Overrides:

transform in class AbstractAdviceTransform

Parameters

input - the the Advice instance containing the input objects

output - the AdviceRequest to be passed to the RulesAdvislet.

Throws

AdvisorException - If an error occurs during the transformation process.