uk.ac.ed.epcc.safe.accounting.reports

Class MacroExpander

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.ed.epcc.safe.accounting.reports.MacroExpander

All Implemented Interfaces:

uk.ac.ed.epcc.webapp.Contexed

public class MacroExpander
extends java.lang.Object
implements uk.ac.ed.epcc.webapp.Contexed

Class for performing property macro expansion on strings. Macros are of the form $[format]{name} or ${name} If a format is specified it is taken as a class tag for a ValueParser If no format is specified a default formatter is chosen based on the type of the parameter. Might be better to use ExpressionExpander if the target is an ExpressionTarget

Author:

spb

See Also:

ExpressionExpander

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
MacroExpander(uk.ac.ed.epcc.webapp.AppContext c, ValueParserPolicy policy)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T> java.lang.String	expand(java.lang.String input)
PropertyContainer	getContainer()
uk.ac.ed.epcc.webapp.AppContext	getContext()
PropertyFinder	getFinder()
void	setPropertyContainer(PropertyContainer cont)
void	setPropertyFinder(PropertyFinder f)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MacroExpander

public MacroExpander(uk.ac.ed.epcc.webapp.AppContext c,
             ValueParserPolicy policy)

Method Detail

getContext

public uk.ac.ed.epcc.webapp.AppContext getContext()

Specified by:

getContext in interface uk.ac.ed.epcc.webapp.Contexed

setPropertyContainer

public void setPropertyContainer(PropertyContainer cont)

setPropertyFinder

public void setPropertyFinder(PropertyFinder f)

getFinder

public PropertyFinder getFinder()

getContainer

public PropertyContainer getContainer()

expand

public <T> java.lang.String expand(java.lang.String input)