net.sf.morph.reflect
Interface Reflector

All Superinterfaces:

net.sf.composite.Component

All Known Subinterfaces:

BeanReflector, CompositeReflector, ContainerReflector, DecoratedReflector, GrowableContainerReflector, IndexedContainerReflector, InstantiatingReflector, MutableIndexedContainerReflector, SizableReflector

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArrayReflector, BaseBeanReflector, BaseCompositeReflector, BaseContainerReflector, BaseReflector, BaseServletReflector, CollectionReflector, ContextReflector, DynaBeanReflector, EnumerationReflector, HttpSessionAttributeReflector, IteratorReflector, ListReflector, MapReflector, ObjectReflector, PageContextAttributeReflector, ReflectorDecorator, ResetableIteratorWrapperReflector, ResultSetReflector, ServletContextAttributeReflector, ServletContextInitParameterReflector, ServletRequestAttributeReflector, ServletRequestParameterReflector, ServletRequestReflector, SetReflector, SimpleDelegatingReflector, SimpleInstantiatingReflector, SortedSetReflector, StringTokenizerReflector, StubbornDelegatingReflector, VelocityContextReflector, VelocityContextReflector

public interface Reflector
extends net.sf.composite.Component

A reflector exposes the information contained within another object. There are two main types of reflectors: BeanReflectors and ContainerReflectors.

Since:

Nov 14, 2004

Author:

Matt Sgarlata

Method Summary

java.lang.Class[]	getReflectableClasses() Defines which classes are reflectable by this reflector.
Wrapper	getWrapper(java.lang.Object object) Optional operation: returns a wrapper for the given object.

Method Detail

getReflectableClasses

java.lang.Class[] getReflectableClasses()

Defines which classes are reflectable by this reflector. Each returned class and all its subclasses are reflectable by this reflector.

Returns:

the classes that are reflectable by this reflector.

getWrapper

Wrapper getWrapper(java.lang.Object object)

Optional operation: returns a wrapper for the given object.

Parameters:

object - the object for which a wrapper is desired

Returns:

the wrapper

Throws:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException - if the reflector does not support retrieving wrappers