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package javax.faces.view.facelets;
/**
* The root class of the abstraction that
* dictates how attributes on a markup element in a Facelets VDL page
* are wired to the JSF API object instance associated with that
* element. The single method on this interface, {@link #applyRule},
* returns an encapsulation of the behavior that actually does the work
* of handling the attribute and its value. There are implementations of
* specific concrete subclasses of this class for all the basic kinds of
* elements that appear in Facelets VDL pages: components,
* non-components, and attached objects.
*
*
* For example, consider this markup:
<h:inputText value="#{user.userid}"
valueChangeListener="#{user.newUserId}" />MetaRule instances are involved in this example.
*
*
* The first has
* an applyRule() method that returns a {@link Metadata}
* instance that, when its applyMetada() method is called,
* dictates how the "value" attribute is processed: calling {@link
* javax.faces.component.UIComponent#setValueExpression} on the
* UIComponent instance associated with the
* <h:inputText> element.
The second has an applyRule() method that returns
* a {@link Metadata} instance that, when its
* applyMetadata() method is called, dictates how the
* "valueChangeListener" attribute is processed: calling {@link
* javax.faces.component.EditableValueHolder#addValueChangeListener}.
*
*
* @since 2.0
*/
public abstract class MetaRule {
/**
* Return an abstraction that takes
* appropriate action given the kind of rule represented by the
* argument name, in the context of this particular
* concrete subclass of MetaRule. The abstraction must
* encapsulate the value from the argument
* attribute.
* @since 2.0
* @param name the name for this rule. This will generally be the
* name of a tag attribute in the VDL.
* @param attribute the name/value pair for this attribute on this
* particular instance of an element in the page.
* @param meta the MetadataTarged that can be used to
* discern what kind of action to encapsulate within the abstraction
* to be returned.
*/
public abstract Metadata applyRule(String name, TagAttribute attribute,
MetadataTarget meta);
}