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 * Copyright (c) 2011, CloudBees, Inc., Stephen Connolly
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package hudson.model;

import hudson.DescriptorExtensionList;
import hudson.ExtensionPoint;
import jenkins.model.Jenkins;
import net.sf.json.JSONObject;
import org.kohsuke.stapler.StaplerRequest;

/**
 * Extensible property of {@link View}.
 *
 * <p>
 * {@link hudson.Plugin}s can extend this to define custom properties for {@link View}s.
 * {@link ViewProperty}s show up in the view configuration screen, and they are
 * persisted with the view object.
 *
 * <p>
 * Configuration screen should be defined in <code>config.jelly</code>.
 * Within this page, the {@link ViewProperty} instance is available as
 * the <code>instance</code> EL variable (while the <code>it</code> EL variable
 * refers to the {@link View}.
 *
 * @author Stephen Connolly
 * @since 1.406
 */
public class ViewProperty implements ReconfigurableDescribable<ViewProperty>, ExtensionPoint {
    /**
     * The view object that owns this property.
     * This value will be set by the core code.
     * Derived classes can expect this value to be always set.
     */
    protected transient View view;

    /*package*/ final void setView(View view) {
        this.view = view;
    }

    public ViewPropertyDescriptor getDescriptor() {
        return (ViewPropertyDescriptor) Jenkins.getInstance().getDescriptorOrDie(getClass());
    }

    public static DescriptorExtensionList<ViewProperty,ViewPropertyDescriptor> all() {
        return Jenkins.getInstance().<ViewProperty,ViewPropertyDescriptor>getDescriptorList(ViewProperty.class);
    }

    public ViewProperty reconfigure(StaplerRequest req, JSONObject form) throws Descriptor.FormException {
    	return form==null ? null : getDescriptor().newInstance(req, form);
    }
}