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/*
Wotonomy: OpenStep design patterns for pure Java applications.
Copyright (C) 2000 Blacksmith, Inc.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, see http://www.gnu.org
*/
package net.wotonomy.web;
import java.io.Serializable;
import net.wotonomy.foundation.NSDictionary;
/**
* This class represents a static or dynamic portion of the content returned to
* a request. Each request walks a tree of WOElements to generate a response.
*
* @author michael@mpowers.net
* @author $Author: cgruber $
* @version $Revision: 905 $
*/
public abstract class WOElement implements WOActionResults, Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 3854088436393061500L;
NSDictionary<String, WOAssociation> associations;
/**
* Default constructor. Performs necessary initialization.
*/
public WOElement() {
}
/**
* This method is called to retrieve user-entered data from the request.
* WOElements should retrieve data from the request based on their elementID and
* set values in the context's current WOComponent, typically those values that
* are associated with the element in the binding. This implementation does
* nothing.
*/
public void takeValuesFromRequest(WORequest aRequest, WOContext aContext) {
// does nothing
}
/**
* This method is called on all objects and elements of the application until a
* non-null value is returned. WOElements should first check to see if they are
* the target of an action by checking the WOContext's senderID to see if it
* matches this element's elementID. If this element is the target, it should
* perform an appropriate action on the context's current WOComponent, usually
* the action specified in the binding, and return the result of that action.
* This implementation returns null.
*/
public WOActionResults invokeAction(WORequest aRequest, WOContext aContext) {
return null;
}
/**
* This method is called on all elements of the content tree to build a response
* to a user request. The message should be forwarded to any child elements so
* that the entire tree is traversed. This implementation does nothing.
*/
public void appendToResponse(WOResponse aResponse, WOContext aContext) {
// does nothing
}
/**
* Package access only. Called to initialize the component with the proper
* context before the start of the request-response cycle. If the context has a
* current component, that component becomes this component's parent.
*/
void ensureAwakeInContext(WOContext aContext) {
// does nothing
}
}
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