org.jboss.metatype.api.types
Interface CompositeMetaType

All Superinterfaces:

MetaType, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCompositeMetaType, ImmutableCompositeMetaType, MapCompositeMetaType, MutableCompositeMetaType

public interface CompositeMetaType
extends MetaType

CompositeMetaType.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Adrian Brock

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.jboss.metatype.api.types.MetaType

ALLOWED_CLASSNAMES

Method Summary

boolean	containsItem(String itemName) Determine whether this CompositeMetaType contains the itemName
String	getDescription(String itemName) Retrieve the description for an item name
MetaType	getType(String itemName) Retrieve the meta type for an item name
Set<String>	itemSet() Retrieve an unmodifiable Set view of all the item names in ascending order.
Set<String>	keySet() Retrieve an unmodifiable Set view of all the key names in ascending order.

Methods inherited from interface org.jboss.metatype.api.types.MetaType

getClassName, getDescription, getTypeName, isArray, isCollection, isComposite, isEnum, isGeneric, isPrimitive, isProperties, isSimple, isTable, isValue

Method Detail

containsItem

boolean containsItem(String itemName)

Determine whether this CompositeMetaType contains the itemName

Parameters:

itemName - the item name

Returns:

true when it does, false otherwise

getDescription

String getDescription(String itemName)

Retrieve the description for an item name

Parameters:

itemName - the item name

Returns:

the description or null when there is no such item name

getType

MetaType getType(String itemName)

Retrieve the meta type for an item name

Parameters:

itemName - the item name

Returns:

the open type or null when there is no such item name

itemSet

Set<String> itemSet()

Retrieve an unmodifiable Set view of all the item names in ascending order.

Returns:

the Set

keySet

Set<String> keySet()

Retrieve an unmodifiable Set view of all the key names in ascending order.

Returns:

the Set