org.databene.benerator.wrapper
Class AlternativeGenerator<E>

java.lang.Object
  org.databene.benerator.util.AbstractGenerator<P>
      org.databene.benerator.wrapper.MultiGeneratorWrapper<E,E>
          org.databene.benerator.wrapper.AlternativeGenerator<E>

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Closeable, Generator<E>, org.databene.commons.Resettable, org.databene.commons.ThreadAware

Direct Known Subclasses:

DomainGenerator

public class AlternativeGenerator<E>
extends MultiGeneratorWrapper<E,E>

On each call to generate(), it chooses a generator from a collection, calls its generate() method and returns the product.

Created: 30.08.2006 21:56:59

Since:

0.1

Author:

Volker Bergmann

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.databene.benerator.wrapper.MultiGeneratorWrapper

availableSources, sources

Fields inherited from class org.databene.benerator.util.AbstractGenerator

context, state

Constructor Summary

AlternativeGenerator()

AlternativeGenerator(java.lang.Class<E> targetType, Generator<E>... sources)
Initializes the generator to a collection of source generators

AlternativeGenerator(Generator<E>... sources)
Initializes the generator to a collection of source generators

Method Summary

E	generate() Returns an instance of the generic type E.
java.lang.Class<E>	getGeneratedType() Declares the type of the objects returned by the generate() method.

Methods inherited from class org.databene.benerator.wrapper.MultiGeneratorWrapper

addSource, close, generateFromAllSources, generateFromRandomSource, getSource, getSources, init, isParallelizable, isThreadSafe, reset, setSources, toString

Methods inherited from class org.databene.benerator.util.AbstractGenerator

assertInitialized, assertNotInitialized, wasInitialized

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AlternativeGenerator

public AlternativeGenerator()

AlternativeGenerator

public AlternativeGenerator(Generator<E>... sources)

Initializes the generator to a collection of source generators

AlternativeGenerator

public AlternativeGenerator(java.lang.Class<E> targetType,
                            Generator<E>... sources)

Initializes the generator to a collection of source generators

Method Detail

getGeneratedType

public java.lang.Class<E> getGeneratedType()

Description copied from interface: Generator

Declares the type of the objects returned by the generate() method.

generate

public E generate()

Description copied from interface: Generator

Returns an instance of the generic type E.

See Also:

Generator.generate()