org.displaytag.model
Class Cell

java.lang.Object
  org.displaytag.model.Cell

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable

public class Cell

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.lang.Comparable

Represents a table cell.

A cell is used only when the content is placed as content of the column tag and need to be evaluated during iteration. If the content is set using the value attribute in the column tag no cell is created and EMPTY_CELL is used as placeholder.

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $ ($Author: fgiust $)

Author:

Fabrizio Giustina

Field Summary

static Cell

EMPTY_CELL empty cell object.

Constructor Summary

Cell(java.lang.Object value)
Creates a cell with a static value.

Method Summary

int	compareTo(java.lang.Object obj) Compare the Cell value to another Cell.
java.lang.Object	getStaticValue() get the static value for the cell.
void	setStaticValue(java.lang.Object value) set the static value of the cell.
java.lang.String	toString() Simple toString wich output the static value.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

EMPTY_CELL

public static final Cell EMPTY_CELL

empty cell object. Use as placeholder for empty cell to avoid useless object creation.

Constructor Detail

Cell

public Cell(java.lang.Object value)

Creates a cell with a static value.

Parameters:

value - Object value of the Cell object

Method Detail

getStaticValue

public java.lang.Object getStaticValue()

get the static value for the cell.

Returns:

the Object value of this.staticValue.

setStaticValue

public void setStaticValue(java.lang.Object value)

set the static value of the cell.

Parameters:

value - - the new value for this.staticValue

compareTo

public int compareTo(java.lang.Object obj)

Compare the Cell value to another Cell.

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable

Parameters:

obj - Object to compare this cell to

Returns:

int

See Also:

Comparable.compareTo(Object)

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Simple toString wich output the static value.

Returns:

String represantation of the cell