/**
* DataCleaner (community edition)
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.datacleaner.widgets.properties;
import org.datacleaner.descriptors.ConfiguredPropertyDescriptor;
import org.datacleaner.job.builder.ComponentBuilder;
/**
* Represents a factory for {@link PropertyWidget}s. An implementation is
* expected to be able to deliver default widgets.
*/
public interface PropertyWidgetFactory {
PropertyWidgetCollection getPropertyWidgetCollection();
ComponentBuilder getComponentBuilder();
PropertyWidget<?> create(String propertyName);
/**
* Creates (and registers) a widget that fits the specified configured
* property.
*
* @param propertyDescriptor
* @return
*/
PropertyWidget<?> create(ConfiguredPropertyDescriptor propertyDescriptor);
}