/**
* Copyright (C) 2015 Valkyrie RCP
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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*/
package org.valkyriercp.binding;
import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
/**
* A strategy for accessing a domain object's properties. Different
* implementations could access different backing objects such as a javabean
* <code>(BeanPropertyAccessStrategy)</code>, hashmap, rowset, or other data
* structure.
*
* @author Keith Donald
*/
public interface PropertyAccessStrategy {
/**
* Get the value of a property.
*
* @param propertyPath name of the property to get the value of
* @return the value of the property
* @throws org.springframework.beans.FatalBeanException if there is no such property, if the property
* isn't readable, or if the property getter throws an exception.
*/
Object getPropertyValue(String propertyPath) throws BeansException;
/**
* Get a metadata accessor, which can return meta information about
* particular properties of the backed domain object.
*
* @return The meta accessor.
*/
PropertyMetadataAccessStrategy getMetadataAccessStrategy();
/**
* Return the target, backing domain object for which property access
* requests are targeted against.
*
* @return The backing target object.
*/
Object getDomainObject();
}