com.communote.server.widgets.util

Class WidgetFactoryUtils

java.lang.Object

com.communote.server.widgets.util.WidgetFactoryUtils

public class WidgetFactoryUtils
extends Object

Utils for the widget factory

Author:

Communote GmbH - http://www.communote.com/

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	getClassNameFromGroupAndWidgetName(String widgetGroup, String widgetName, String packagePrefix) Create the full qualified widget class name from widget group and widget name.
static Pair<String,String>	getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass(Class<? extends Widget> widgetClass) Returns the same as getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass(Class, String) with startAfter set to ".widgets.".
static Pair<String,String>	getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass(Class<? extends Widget> widgetClass, String startAfter) Get the widget group and widget name from the full qualified class name of a widget class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getClassNameFromGroupAndWidgetName

public static String getClassNameFromGroupAndWidgetName(String widgetGroup,
                                                        String widgetName,
                                                        String packagePrefix)

Create the full qualified widget class name from widget group and widget name. The widget group will be converted into a package name by replacing slashes with dots and the widget name will be used as class name.

Parameters:

widgetGroup - the name of the group.

widgetName - the name of the widget

packagePrefix - if provided the prefix is prepended to the class-name. Must end with a dot if not null.

Returns:

the class name

getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass

public static Pair<String,String> getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass(Class<? extends Widget> widgetClass)

Returns the same as getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass(Class, String) with startAfter set to ".widgets.".

Parameters:

widgetClass - the class of the widget

Returns:

a pair where the left part contains the group name and the right the widget name

getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass

public static Pair<String,String> getGroupAndWidgetNameFromClass(Class<? extends Widget> widgetClass,
                                                                 String startAfter)

Get the widget group and widget name from the full qualified class name of a widget class. The group name will be taken from the package with all dots replaced by slashes and the widget name will be the class name. Example: if called with the class com.communote.fe.widgets.example.test.TestWidget and ".widgets." as startAfter the group name will be example/test and the widget name TestWidget

Parameters:

widgetClass - the widget class

startAfter - an optional string to start after when extracting the group and widget. The first occurrence of this string is searched in the package name of the class and if found only the substring following this string is used for extraction.

Returns:

a pair where the left part contains the group name and the right the widget name