org.java.plugin.registry
Interface PluginAttribute

All Superinterfaces:

Documentable<PluginAttribute>, Identity, PluginElement<PluginAttribute>

All Known Implementing Classes:

MockPluginAttribute

public interface PluginAttribute
extends PluginElement<PluginAttribute>

This interface abstracts plug-in attribute, a <ID,VALUE> pair. Plug-in attributes are not involved into JPF runtime internal logic and intended to be used by plug-in developers.

Version:

$Id$

Method Summary

PluginAttribute	getSubAttribute(java.lang.String id)
java.util.Collection<PluginAttribute>	getSubAttributes()
java.util.Collection<PluginAttribute>	getSubAttributes(java.lang.String id)
PluginAttribute	getSuperAttribute()
java.lang.String	getValue()

Methods inherited from interface org.java.plugin.registry.PluginElement

getDeclaringPluginDescriptor, getDeclaringPluginFragment

Methods inherited from interface org.java.plugin.registry.Identity

getId

Methods inherited from interface org.java.plugin.registry.Documentable

getDocsPath, getDocumentation

Method Detail

getValue

java.lang.String getValue()

Returns:

attribute value as it is specified in manifest

getSubAttributes

java.util.Collection<PluginAttribute> getSubAttributes()

Returns:

collection of all sub-attributes of this attribute

getSubAttribute

PluginAttribute getSubAttribute(java.lang.String id)

Parameters:

id - ID of sub-attribute to look for

Returns:

sub-attribute with given ID

getSubAttributes

java.util.Collection<PluginAttribute> getSubAttributes(java.lang.String id)

Parameters:

id - ID of sub-attribute to look for

Returns:

collection of all sub-attributes with given ID

getSuperAttribute

PluginAttribute getSuperAttribute()

Returns:

attribute, of which this one is child or null if this is top level attribute