org.databene.benerator.composite
Interface ComponentBuilder<E>

All Superinterfaces:

org.databene.commons.ThreadAware

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractComponentBuilder, AlternativeComponentBuilder, ArrayElementBuilder, ComponentBuilderProxy, ConditionalComponentBuilder, DefaultComponentBuilder, MultiComponentBuilder, PlainEntityComponentBuilder

public interface ComponentBuilder<E>
extends org.databene.commons.ThreadAware

Common interface for all component builders.

Created at 09.05.2008 13:14:15

Since:

0.5.4

Author:

Volker Bergmann

Method Summary

boolean	buildComponentFor(E target) builds the related component of target
void	close() closes the builder
java.lang.Class<?>	getGeneratedType()
void	init(GeneratorContext context) Initializes the instance
void	reset() resets the builder

Methods inherited from interface org.databene.commons.ThreadAware

isParallelizable, isThreadSafe

Method Detail

init

void init(GeneratorContext context)

Initializes the instance

getGeneratedType

java.lang.Class<?> getGeneratedType()

Returns:

the type of the generated components

buildComponentFor

boolean buildComponentFor(E target)

builds the related component of target

Returns:

false if no more data was available to build, otherwise true

reset

void reset()

resets the builder

close

void close()

closes the builder