Package com.aquima.interactions.mapping.impl

Class AttributeMappingDefinition

java.lang.Object

com.aquima.interactions.mapping.impl.AttributeMappingDefinition

All Implemented Interfaces:

IAttributeMappingDefinition, Serializable

public class AttributeMappingDefinition
extends Object
implements IAttributeMappingDefinition

Contains the definition of a mapping on the Attribute level.

Since:

7.1

Author:

i.de.jong, Jon van Leuven

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
AttributeMappingDefinition(IAttributeMappingDS datasource, IEntityDefinition targetEntity, IExpressionParser parser)	Constructs an attribute mapping definition from a data source.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AttributeReference	getTargetAttribute()	This method returns the name of the attribute the attribute from the source should be mapped to.
IValueMappingDefinition[]	getValueMapping()	This method return the optional value mappings.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AttributeMappingDefinition

public AttributeMappingDefinition(IAttributeMappingDS datasource,
                                  IEntityDefinition targetEntity,
                                  IExpressionParser parser)

Constructs an attribute mapping definition from a data source. This method requires the (partially) initialized source and target entity defintions.

Parameters:

datasource - The data source providing the information of the attribute mapping.

targetEntity - The target entity definition

parser - The parser that is used for expression parsing.

Throws:

InitializationException - This error is thrown when structural errors are encountered during initialization.

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

getValueMapping

public IValueMappingDefinition[] getValueMapping()

Description copied from interface: IAttributeMappingDefinition

This method return the optional value mappings.

Specified by:

getValueMapping in interface IAttributeMappingDefinition

Returns:

The value mappings, may not be null, but could return an empty array.

getTargetAttribute

public AttributeReference getTargetAttribute()

Description copied from interface: IAttributeMappingDefinition

This method returns the name of the attribute the attribute from the source should be mapped to. In case of a relation, this method returns the name of the target the instance(s) from the relation should be mapped to. The target may be either a name of a relation or a name of an entity (singleton or not). In case the target indicates another relation attribute, the entity of the target should be included.

Specified by:

getTargetAttribute in interface IAttributeMappingDefinition

Returns:

The name of the attribute the attribute from the source should be mapped to.