Coverage Report - org.melati.poem.Initialiser
 
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Initialiser
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 /*
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  * $Source$
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  * $Revision$
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  *
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  * Copyright (C) 2000 William Chesters
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  *
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  * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid
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  * development of clean, maintainable web applications.
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  *
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  * Melati is free software; Permission is granted to copy, distribute
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  * and/or modify this software under the terms either:
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  *
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  * a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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  *    Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
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  *    any later version,
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  *
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  *    or
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  *
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  * b) any version of the Melati Software License, as published
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  *    at http://melati.org
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  *
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  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and
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  * the Melati Software License along with this program;
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  * if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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  * 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA to obtain the
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  * GNU General Public License and visit http://melati.org to obtain the
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  * Melati Software License.
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  *
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  * Feel free to contact the Developers of Melati (http://melati.org),
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  * if you would like to work out a different arrangement than the options
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  * outlined here.  It is our intention to allow Melati to be used by as
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  * wide an audience as possible.
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  *
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  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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  * GNU General Public License for more details.
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  *
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  * Contact details for copyright holder:
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  *
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  *     William Chesters <williamc@paneris.org>
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  *     http://paneris.org/~williamc
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  *     Obrechtstraat 114, 2517VX Den Haag, The Netherlands
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  */
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 package org.melati.poem;
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 /**
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  * A piece of code for initialising a newly created {@link Persistent} 
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  * object in a POEM {@link Table}.
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  * Much like a Java constructor.  You will probably want to define these as
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  * anonymous classes.
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  *
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  * @author WilliamC At paneris.org
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  * @see Table#create(org.melati.poem.Initialiser)
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  */
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 public interface Initialiser {
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   /**
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    * Initialise a freshly generated POEM object.
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    *
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    * @param object      A <TT>Persistent</TT> representing the new object, or,
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    *                    if the table was defined in the DSD under the name
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    *                    <TT><I>foo</I></TT>, an application-specialised
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    *                    subclass <TT><I>Foo</I></TT> of <TT>Persistent</TT>.
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    *                    You should call its <TT>setRaw</TT> and/or
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    *                    <TT>setCooked</TT> methods to get it into a state which
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    *                    is (a) legal, in that all its fields have valid values,
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    *                    and (b) writeable by you (the <TT>AccessToken</TT> of
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    *                    the calling thread).
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    *
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    * @exception AccessPoemException
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    *                you will not provoke an <TT>AccessPoemException</TT> during
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    *                initialisation (while this method is running) unless the
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    *                application-specialised <TT>Persistent</TT> throws one
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    *                explicitly, because POEM's standard checks are disabled;
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    *                however, after this method returns, the object you have
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    *                initialised will be checked to ensure that you have write
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    *                access to it
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    *
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    * @see PoemThread#accessToken()
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    * @see Table#create(org.melati.poem.Initialiser)
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    */
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   void init(Persistent object)
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       throws AccessPoemException, ValidationPoemException;
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 }