org.uddi4j.datatype
Class Description

java.lang.Object
  org.uddi4j.UDDIElement
      org.uddi4j.datatype.Description

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class Description

extends UDDIElement

Represents the description element within the UDDI version 2.0 schema. This class contains the following types of methods:

• Constructor passing required fields.
• Constructor that will instantiate the object from an appropriate XML DOM element.
• Get/set methods for each attribute that this element can contain.
• A get/setVector method is provided for sets of attributes.
• SaveToXML method. Serializes this class within a passed in element.

Typically, this class is used to construct parameters for, or interpret responses from methods in the UDDIProxy class.

Author:

David Melgar (dmelgar@us.ibm.com), Ravi Trivedi (ravi_trivedi@hp.com)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected org.w3c.dom.Element	base
static java.lang.String	UDDI_TAG

Fields inherited from class org.uddi4j.UDDIElement

GENERIC, SOAPNS, XMLNS

Constructor Summary

Description()
Default constructor.

Description(org.w3c.dom.Element base)
Construct the object from a DOM tree.

Description(java.lang.String value)
Construct the object with required fields.

Description(java.lang.String value, java.lang.String lang)
Construct the object with required fields.

Method Summary

boolean	equals(java.lang.Object object)
java.lang.String	getLang()
java.lang.String	getText()
void	saveToXML(org.w3c.dom.Element parent) Save an object to the DOM tree.
void	setLang(java.lang.String s) Set the language identifier for this string element.
void	setText(java.lang.String s)

Methods inherited from class org.uddi4j.UDDIElement

getChildElementsByTagName, getText

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

UDDI_TAG

public static final java.lang.String UDDI_TAG

See Also:

Constant Field Values

base

protected org.w3c.dom.Element base

Constructor Detail

Description

public Description()

Default constructor. Avoid using the default constructor for validation. It does not validate required fields. Instead, use the required fields constructor to perform validation.

Description

public Description(java.lang.String value)

Construct the object with required fields.

Parameters:

value - String value

Description

public Description(java.lang.String value,
                   java.lang.String lang)

Construct the object with required fields.

Parameters:

value - String value

lang - String Language used for the name. Possible values defined in ISO3166.

Description

public Description(org.w3c.dom.Element base)
            throws UDDIException

Construct the object from a DOM tree. Used by UDDIProxy to construct an object from a received UDDI message.

Parameters:

base - Element with the name appropriate for this class.

Throws:

UDDIException - Thrown if DOM tree contains a SOAP fault or disposition report indicating a UDDI error.

Method Detail

setText

public void setText(java.lang.String s)

setLang

public void setLang(java.lang.String s)

Set the language identifier for this string element. Possible values are defined in ISO3166.

Parameters:

s - Language string.

getText

public java.lang.String getText()

getLang

public java.lang.String getLang()

saveToXML

public void saveToXML(org.w3c.dom.Element parent)

Save an object to the DOM tree. Used to serialize an object to a DOM tree, usually to send a UDDI message.
Used by UDDIProxy.

Specified by:

saveToXML in class UDDIElement

Parameters:

parent - Object will serialize as a child element under the passed in parent element.

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object object)