org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.field
Class InitializeDataFieldFromDictionaryTask

java.lang.Object
  org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.lifecycle.ViewLifecycleTaskBase<DataField>
      org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.field.InitializeDataFieldFromDictionaryTask

All Implemented Interfaces:

Runnable, ViewLifecycleTask<DataField>

public class InitializeDataFieldFromDictionaryTask
extends ViewLifecycleTaskBase<DataField>

Performs initialization on data fields based on attributes found in the data dictionary.

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

Constructor Summary

InitializeDataFieldFromDictionaryTask(ViewLifecyclePhase phase)
Constructor.

Method Summary

protected AttributeDefinition	findNestedDictionaryAttribute(String propertyPath) Recursively drills down the property path (if nested) to find an AttributeDefinition, the first attribute definition found will be returned
protected void	performLifecycleTask() Sets properties of the InputField (if blank) to the corresponding attribute entry in the data dictionary Performs phase-specific lifecycle processing tasks.

Methods inherited from class org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.lifecycle.ViewLifecycleTaskBase

getElementState, getElementType, run, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

InitializeDataFieldFromDictionaryTask

public InitializeDataFieldFromDictionaryTask(ViewLifecyclePhase phase)

Constructor.

Parameters:

phase - The initialize phase for the data field.

Method Detail

performLifecycleTask

protected void performLifecycleTask()

Sets properties of the InputField (if blank) to the corresponding attribute entry in the data dictionary Performs phase-specific lifecycle processing tasks.

Specified by:

performLifecycleTask in class ViewLifecycleTaskBase<DataField>

findNestedDictionaryAttribute

protected AttributeDefinition findNestedDictionaryAttribute(String propertyPath)

Recursively drills down the property path (if nested) to find an AttributeDefinition, the first attribute definition found will be returned

e.g. suppose parentPath is 'document' and propertyPath is 'account.subAccount.name', first the property type for document will be retrieved using the view metadata and used as the dictionary entry, with the propertyPath as the dictionary attribute, if an attribute definition exists it will be returned. Else, the first part of the property path is added to the parent, making the parentPath 'document.account' and the propertyPath 'subAccount.name', the method is then called again to perform the process with those parameters. The recursion continues until an attribute field is found, or the propertyPath is no longer nested

Parameters:

propertyPath - path of the property to use as dictionary attribute and to drill down on

Returns:

AttributeDefinition if found, or Null