1 /* 2 * $Source$ 3 * $Revision$ 4 * 5 * Copyright (C) 2000 William Chesters 6 * 7 * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid 8 * development of clean, maintainable web applications. 9 * 10 * Melati is free software; Permission is granted to copy, distribute 11 * and/or modify this software under the terms either: 12 * 13 * a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software 14 * Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) 15 * any later version, 16 * 17 * or 18 * 19 * b) any version of the Melati Software License, as published 20 * at http://melati.org 21 * 22 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and 23 * the Melati Software License along with this program; 24 * if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 25 * 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA to obtain the 26 * GNU General Public License and visit http://melati.org to obtain the 27 * Melati Software License. 28 * 29 * Feel free to contact the Developers of Melati (http://melati.org), 30 * if you would like to work out a different arrangement than the options 31 * outlined here. It is our intention to allow Melati to be used by as 32 * wide an audience as possible. 33 * 34 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 35 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 36 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 37 * GNU General Public License for more details. 38 * 39 * Contact details for copyright holder: 40 * 41 * William Chesters <williamc At paneris.org> 42 * http://paneris.org/~williamc 43 * Obrechtstraat 114, 2517VX Den Haag, The Netherlands 44 */ 45 46 package org.melati.template; 47 48 /** 49 * Object for reading fields from a context, modified by a user. 50 * The typical case is the conversion of values from human settable 51 * date widgets to a machine readable form, which are converted to the 52 * appropriate Object type. 53 */ 54 public interface TempletAdaptor { 55 56 /** 57 * Retrieve a raw value, ie an SQL value, from a ServletTemplateContext. 58 * 59 * @param context the ServletTemplateContext the value is stored in 60 * @param fieldName the name of the field in the context 61 * @return the raw value 62 */ 63 Object rawFrom(ServletTemplateContext context, String fieldName); 64 }