com.google.gwt.editor.client
Interface CompositeEditor<T,C,E extends Editor<? super C>>

Type Parameters:

T - the base type being edited

C - the component type to be edited

E - the type of Editor that will edit the component type

All Superinterfaces:

Editor<T>, HasEditorDelegate<T>, ValueAwareEditor<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

HasDataEditor, ListEditor, OptionalFieldEditor

public interface CompositeEditor<T,C,E extends Editor<? super C>>
extends ValueAwareEditor<T>

An interface that indicates that a given Editor is composed of an unknown number of sub-Editors all of the same type.

For example, the ListEditor type is a CompositeEditor<List<T>, T, E extends Editor<T>>; that is, ListEditor will accept a List<T> and will edit some unknown number of T's using the Editor type E. Another example might be:

 class WorkgroupEditor implements CompositeEditor<Workgroup, Person, PersonSummaryEditor>{
   public void setValue(Workgroup workgroup) {
     // Assuming Workgroup implements Iterable<Person>
     for (Person p : workgroup) {
       PersonSummaryEditor editor = new PersonSummaryEditor();
       // Attach editor to DOM
       somePanel.add(editor);
       // Let the generated code drive the sub-editor
       editorChain.attach(p, editor);
     }
   }
 }
 

createEditorForTraversal

E createEditorForTraversal()

Returns an canonical sub-editor instance that will be used by the driver for computing all edited paths.

Returns:

an instance of the Editor type

getPathElement

java.lang.String getPathElement(E subEditor)

Used to implement EditorDelegate.getPath() for the component Editors.

Parameters:

subEditor - an instance of the Editor type previously passed into CompositeEditor.EditorChain.attach(C, E)

Returns:

the path element as a String

setEditorChain

void setEditorChain(CompositeEditor.EditorChain<C,E> chain)

Called by the Editor framework to provide the CompositeEditor.EditorChain.

Parameters:

chain - an CompositeEditor.EditorChain instance