/*
* Copyright (C) 2005-2012 BetaCONCEPT Limited
*
* This file is part of Astroboa.
*
* Astroboa is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* Astroboa 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 Astroboa. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package org.betaconceptframework.astroboa.api.model.definition;
import org.betaconceptframework.astroboa.api.model.StringProperty;
/**
* Possible format(s) of values of a {@link StringProperty string property}.
*
* @author Gregory Chomatas (gchomatas@betaconcept.com)
* @author Savvas Triantafyllou (striantafyllou@betaconcept.com)
*
* @see StringPropertyDefinition#getStringFormat()
*
*/
public enum StringFormat {
/**
* Specifies that {@link StringProperty string property} has
* plain text only values without any kind of meta data information.
*/
PlainText,
/**
* Specifies that {@link StringProperty string property} has
* text values which contain formatting or semantic meta data
* in the form of XML tags.
*/
RichText,
/**
* Specifies that {@link StringProperty string property}
* contains code in some programming or scripting language,
* or that it contains XML data that should be treated and edited as
* code (i.e. a mainly textual content with some html tags is more appropriately characterized
* as RichText while an XHTM Page Template should be characterized as code.
* For the end user of Astroboa the difference is that a "RichText" field will be edited
* with a Rich Text Editor while a "Code" field will be edited with a text editor offering
* wrapping, auto-tabs, line numbers and proper code highlighting)
*/
Code;
}