org.displaytag.decorator
Class DecoratorFactory

java.lang.Object
  org.displaytag.decorator.DecoratorFactory

public final class DecoratorFactory

extends java.lang.Object

Factory for TableDecorator or ColumnDecorator object.

Version:

$Revision: 1.9 $ ($Author: fgiust $)

Author:

Fabrizio Giustina

Method Summary

static ColumnDecorator	loadColumnDecorator(java.lang.String columnDecoratorName) If the user has specified a column decorator, then this method takes care of creating the decorator (and checking to make sure it is a subclass of the ColumnDecorator object).
static TableDecorator	loadTableDecorator(java.lang.String decoratorName) If the user has specified a decorator, then this method takes care of creating the decorator (and checking to make sure it is a subclass of the TableDecorator object).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

loadTableDecorator

public static TableDecorator loadTableDecorator(java.lang.String decoratorName)
                                         throws DecoratorInstantiationException

If the user has specified a decorator, then this method takes care of creating the decorator (and checking to make sure it is a subclass of the TableDecorator object). If there are any problems loading the decorator then this will throw a DecoratorInstantiationException which will get propagated up to the page.

Parameters:

decoratorName - String full decorator class name

Returns:

instance of TableDecorator

Throws:

DecoratorInstantiationException - if unable to load specified TableDecorator

loadColumnDecorator

public static ColumnDecorator loadColumnDecorator(java.lang.String columnDecoratorName)
                                           throws DecoratorInstantiationException

If the user has specified a column decorator, then this method takes care of creating the decorator (and checking to make sure it is a subclass of the ColumnDecorator object). If there are any problems loading the decorator then this will throw a DecoratorInstantiationException which will get propagated up to the page.

Parameters:

columnDecoratorName - String full decorator class name

Returns:

instance of ColumnDecorator

Throws:

DecoratorInstantiationException - if unable to load ColumnDecorator