net.ontopia.topicmaps.nav2.core
Interface LinkGeneratorIF

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultUniversalLinkGenerator, ModelLinkGenerator, ModelLinkGeneratorWithObjID, ModelLinkGeneratorWithObjID

public interface LinkGeneratorIF

INTERNAL: interface for classes which implement generating URI links. Used by the link tag.

See Also:

LinkTag

Field Summary

static String	LINK_ID_KEY INTERNAL: Constant String value representing the name of a template variable being replaced with the object id.
static String	LINK_TOPICMAP_KEY INTERNAL: Constant String value representing the name of a template variable being replaced with the topicmap id.

Method Summary

String	generate(ContextTag contextTag, TMObjectIF tmObj, String topicmapId, String template) INTERNAL: create a String which contains link information for a Topic Map Object.
String	generate(ContextTag contextTag, TopicMapReferenceIF tmRefObj, String template) INTERNAL: create a String which contains link information to a Topicmap retrieved with the help of an TopicMapReferenceIF object.

Field Detail

LINK_ID_KEY

static final String LINK_ID_KEY

INTERNAL: Constant String value representing the name of a template variable being replaced with the object id.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

LINK_TOPICMAP_KEY

static final String LINK_TOPICMAP_KEY

INTERNAL: Constant String value representing the name of a template variable being replaced with the topicmap id.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

generate

String generate(ContextTag contextTag,
                TMObjectIF tmObj,
                String topicmapId,
                String template)
                throws NavigatorRuntimeException

INTERNAL: create a String which contains link information for a Topic Map Object.

Note: This String gets converted to an URL encoded format by the link tag automatically afterwards.

Parameters:

contextTag - A ContextTag object providing access to all important information to the application.

tmObj - An Object implementing TMObjectIF to which the link should direct.

topicmapId - The id that the topic map has in the registry.

template - A template string which may contain template variable(s) which are replaced.

Throws:

NavigatorRuntimeException

generate

String generate(ContextTag contextTag,
                TopicMapReferenceIF tmRefObj,
                String template)
                throws NavigatorRuntimeException

INTERNAL: create a String which contains link information to a Topicmap retrieved with the help of an TopicMapReferenceIF object.

Note: This String gets converted to an URL encoded format by the link tag automatically afterwards.

Parameters:

contextTag - A ContextTag object providing access to all important information to the application.

tmRefObj - An Object implementing TopicMapReferenceIF to which beloning Topic Map the link should direct.

template - A template string which may contain template variable(s) which are replaced.

Throws:

NavigatorRuntimeException