org.codice.ddf.catalog.plugin.metacard.util

Class AttributeFactory

java.lang.Object

org.codice.ddf.catalog.plugin.metacard.util.AttributeFactory

public class AttributeFactory
extends Object

Support class for working with and constructing Attributes. The default method for handling multi-valued attributes as a single string is to delimit each value with a comma.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AttributeFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Attribute	createAttribute(AttributeDescriptor attributeDescriptor, String value) Attempts to create an Attribute according to the provided AttributeDescriptor whose value is represented by the given string .
Serializable	parseAttributeValue(AttributeDescriptor attributeDescriptor, String value) Attempts to parse a value for an Attribute according to the provided AttributeDescriptor whose value is represented by the given string .

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AttributeFactory

public AttributeFactory()

Method Detail

createAttribute

public Attribute createAttribute(AttributeDescriptor attributeDescriptor,
                                 String value)

Attempts to create an Attribute according to the provided AttributeDescriptor whose value is represented by the given string . Throws an exception if could not be parsed.

Parameters:

attributeDescriptor - The descriptor used to create the attribute.

value - The non-empty string to use to create an attribute value. Multi-valued entities should be separated by commas.

Returns:

An Attribute conforming to the given AttributeDescriptor with a value of that was parsed and processed to Serializable.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the given value could not be parsed or if the inputs were null or empty.

parseAttributeValue

@Nullable
public Serializable parseAttributeValue(AttributeDescriptor attributeDescriptor,
                                                  String value)

Attempts to parse a value for an Attribute according to the provided AttributeDescriptor whose value is represented by the given string . Returns null if could not be parsed.

The input must be effectively Serializable.

Parameters:

attributeDescriptor - The descriptor to use to parse the value.

value - The string containing the value to be parsed.

Returns:

The deserialized object of according to .