01: /*
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03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
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06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17: package org.apache.cocoon.woody.binding;
18:
19: import org.apache.cocoon.woody.formmodel.Widget;
20:
21: /**
22: * Binding declares the methods to 'bind' (i.e. 'load' and 'save')
23: * information elements from some back-end model (2nd argument) to and from
24: * a existing Woody Widget.
25: *
26: * @version CVS $Id: Binding.java 433543 2006-08-22 06:22:54Z crossley $
27: */
28: public interface Binding {
29:
30: /**
31: * Sets parent binding.
32: * @param binding Parent of this binding.
33: */
34: void setParent(Binding binding);
35:
36: /**
37: * Gets binding definition id.
38: */
39: String getId();
40:
41: /**
42: * Gets a binding class.
43: * @param id Id of binding class to get.
44: */
45: Binding getClass(String id);
46:
47: /**
48: * Loads the information-elements from the objModel to the frmModel.
49: *
50: * @param frmModel
51: * @param objModel
52: */
53: void loadFormFromModel(Widget frmModel, Object objModel)
54: throws BindingException;
55:
56: /**
57: * Saves the infortmation-elements to the objModel from the frmModel.
58: * @param frmModel
59: * @param objModel
60: */
61: void saveFormToModel(Widget frmModel, Object objModel)
62: throws BindingException;
63: }
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