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Interface semper.util.browser.BrowseableActions

public interface BrowseableActions
A BrowseableActions object will contain the methods for manipulating Browseable objects in several ways when a user is browsing. The BrowseableActions are first loaded by the Browser. To support the browsing procedure, a BrowseableActions object provides methods for sorting and calling dynamically methods on the Browseables.

See Also:
Browser

Method Index

o compareTo(Browseable, Browseable, int, boolean)
Method for sorting on a specified key.
o getActions()
Obtain the names of the actions which can be called for a browseable.
o getKeys()
Obtain the names of the keys which can be used to sort.
o getMethodName(int)
Obtain the name of the method that should be called for a browseable.

Methods

o compareTo 
 public abstract int compareTo(Browseable one,
                               Browseable other,
                               int keyno,
                               boolean reverse)
Method for sorting on a specified key. Other methods could make sorting (and selecting) on individual fields possible.

Precondition: the objects must be of the same type.

Parameters:
one - Browseable object to compare with other.
other - Browseable object to compare with one.
keyno - number of the key field to use in comparisons.
reverse - if true use the reverse order.
Returns:
-1, 0, or 1 iff this is "less than", "equal to", or "larger than" other, respectively.
o getKeys 
 public abstract String[] getKeys()
Obtain the names of the keys which can be used to sort. The index of the key in the result array is its key number.

Returns:
a String per key.
o getActions 
 public abstract String[] getActions()
Obtain the names of the actions which can be called for a browseable.

Returns:
a String per action.
o getMethodName 
 public abstract String getMethodName(int n)
Obtain the name of the method that should be called for a browseable.

Returns:
the name of the method. 
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