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* Copyright (c) 2006 Oracle Corporation.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Gerry Kessler/Oracle - initial API and implementation
*
********************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jst.jsf.taglibprocessing.attributevalues;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Abstract meta-data processing type representing an expression binding attribute value runtime type
*
* <p><b>Provisional API - subject to change</b></p>
* @author Gerry Kessler - Oracle
*/
public abstract class ExpressionBindingType extends BindingType {
/**
* Valid values is any fully qualified Java type or primitive.
* Assign a value for each parameter in order
*/
public static final String RUNTIME_PARAMS_TYPES = "runtime-param-types"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Valid values is any fully qualified Java type or primitive.
*/
public static final String RUNTIME_RETURN_TYPE = "runtime-return-type"; //$NON-NLS-1$
/**
* Value should be set true or false. If not specified, the default inmplementation assumes false.
*/
public static final String RUNTIME_SETTER_REQUIRED = "runtime-type-setter-required"; //$NON-NLS-1$
private List validationMessages;
/**
* @return String value of the "runtime-return-type" trait
*/
protected String getReturnType() {
return getTraitValueAsString(RUNTIME_RETURN_TYPE);
}
/**
* @return String[] value of the "runtime-param-types" trait
*/
protected String[] getParams() {
List params = getTraitValueAsListOfStrings(RUNTIME_PARAMS_TYPES);
return (String[])params.toArray(new String[0]);
}
/**
* @return lits of validation messages
*/
public List getValidationMessages() {
if (validationMessages == null){
validationMessages = new ArrayList();
}
return validationMessages;
}
}