com.uwyn.rife.template
Interface ValueRenderer

public interface ValueRenderer

An object which can render content for a value in a template. To use a renderer in a template, the template should contain a value with an ID like "RENDER:org.rifers.something.MyRenderer", where MyRenderer is your ValueRenderer class.

Value renderer implementations must provide a public zero-argumnet no-arg constructor.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision: 3634 $

Author:

Keith Lea <keith[remove] at cs dot oswego dot edu>, Geert Bevin (gbevin[remove] at uwyn dot com)

Method Summary

String

render(Template template, String valueId, String differentiator) Renders the specified value in the given template.

Method Detail

render

String render(Template template,
              String valueId,
              String differentiator)

Renders the specified value in the given template. The value ID will be of the form "RENDER:className" or "RENDER:className:differentiator", where "className" is the fully qualified name of this class.

Parameters:

template - the template into which the returned string will be inserted

valueId - the ID of the value in the given template whose value will be set to the returned string

differentiator - the differentiator string passed as part of the value ID, or null if none was provided

Returns:

the rendered text

Since:

1.0