json/src/main/java/org/apidesign/html/json/spi/Technology.java
author Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tulach@netbeans.org>
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:44:34 +0100
changeset 551 7ca2253fa86d
parent 534 15907d1499fb
child 567 83879118f17e
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Updating copyright headers to mention current year
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    43 package org.apidesign.html.json.spi;
    44 
    45 import net.java.html.json.Model;
    46 import net.java.html.json.Models;
    47 
    48 /** An implementation of a binding between model classes (see {@link Model})
    49  * and particular technology like <a href="http://knockoutjs.com">knockout.js</a>
    50  * in a browser window, etc.
    51  *
    52  * @author Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach@netbeans.org>
    53  */
    54 public interface Technology<Data> {
    55     /** Creates an object to wrap the provided model object. The model
    56      * has previously been generated by annotation processor associated 
    57      * with {@link Model} annotation.
    58      * 
    59      * @param model the model generated from {@link Model}
    60      * @return internal object representing the model
    61      */
    62     public Data wrapModel(Object model);
    63     
    64     /** Converts an element potentially representing a model into the model.
    65      * @param modelClass expected class to convert the data to
    66      * @param data the current data provided from the browser
    67      * @return the instance of modelClass somehow extracted from the data, may return <code>null</code>
    68      */
    69     public <M> M toModel(Class<M> modelClass, Object data);
    70     
    71     /** Binds a property between the model and the data as used by the technology.
    72      * 
    73      * @param b the description of the requested binding
    74      * @param model the original instance of the model
    75      * @param data the data to bind with the model
    76      */
    77     public void bind(PropertyBinding b, Object model, Data data);
    78 
    79     /** Model for given data has changed its value. The technology is
    80      * supposed to update its state (for example DOM nodes associated
    81      * with the model). The update usually happens asynchronously.
    82      * 
    83      * @param data technology's own representation of the model
    84      * @param propertyName name of the model property that changed
    85      */
    86     public void valueHasMutated(Data data, String propertyName);
    87 
    88     public void expose(FunctionBinding fb, Object model, Data d);
    89     
    90     /** Applies given data to current context (usually an HTML page).
    91      * @param data the data to apply
    92      */
    93     public void applyBindings(Data data);
    94     
    95     /**
    96      * Some technologies may require wrapping a Java array into a special
    97      * object. In such case they may return it from this method.
    98      *
    99      * @param arr original array
   100      * @return wrapped array
   101      */
   102     public Object wrapArray(Object[] arr);
   103     
   104     /** 
   105      * Run given runnable in a safe mode. If the runnable can be executed
   106      * immediately, do it. If we need to switch to some other thread, do it
   107      * and invoke r asynchronously immediately returning from the call to
   108      * runSafe method.
   109      * 
   110      * @param r the runnable to execute
   111      */
   112     public void runSafe(Runnable r);
   113 
   114     /** For certain rendering technologies it may be more efficient to register
   115      * property and function bindings for one instance of the model at once, 
   116      * rather then doing it incrementally via 
   117      * {@link Technology#expose(org.apidesign.html.json.spi.FunctionBinding, java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object) }
   118      * and 
   119      * {@link Technology#bind(org.apidesign.html.json.spi.PropertyBinding, java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object) }.
   120      * In such case implement the {@link #wrapModel(java.lang.Object, org.apidesign.html.json.spi.PropertyBinding[], org.apidesign.html.json.spi.FunctionBinding[]) }
   121      * method of this interface and it will be called instead of the 
   122      * previous two ones.
   123      * 
   124      * @since 0.6
   125      */
   126     public static interface BatchInit<D> extends Technology<D> {
   127         /** Wrap the given model into redering technology appropriate object 
   128          * <code>D</code> and expose given properties and functions on it.
   129          * 
   130          * @param model the {@link Models#isModel(java.lang.Class) model} in Java
   131          * @param propArr array of property bindings to expose
   132          * @param funcArr array of functions to expose
   133          * @return appropriate wrapper around the model
   134          */
   135         public D wrapModel(Object model, PropertyBinding[] propArr, FunctionBinding[] funcArr);
   136     }
   137 }