ecologylab.xml.types.scalar
Class FileType

java.lang.Object
  ecologylab.generic.Debug
      ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.ScalarType<java.io.File>
          ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.FileType

public class FileType
extends ScalarType<java.io.File>

Author:

Zachary O. Toups (toupsz@cs.tamu.edu)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.ScalarType

DEFAULT_DELIMS, DEFAULT_VALUE, DEFAULT_VALUE_STRING

Constructor Summary

FileType()

Method Summary

java.io.File

getInstance(java.lang.String value) If this is a reference type, build an appropriate Object, given a String representation.

Methods inherited from class ecologylab.xml.types.scalar.ScalarType

affordsInterestExpression, allowDelimitersInTokens, allowNewLines, appendValue, appendValue, appendValue, appendValue, composedOfTerms, defaultValue, defaultValueLength, defaultValueString, delimeters, getClassName, getTypeClass, illegalChars, isDefaultValue, isDefaultValue, isFloatingPoint, isPrimitive, isReference, marshall, needsEscaping, setField, setFieldError, toString

Methods inherited from class ecologylab.generic.Debug

classSimpleName, closeLoggingFile, debug, debug, debug, debug, debugA, debugA, debugA, debugI, debugI, debugI, error, error, getClassName, getInteractive, getPackageName, getPackageName, getPackageName, initialize, level, level, level, logToFile, print, print, println, println, println, println, println, println, printlnA, printlnA, printlnA, printlnI, printlnI, printlnI, printlnI, setLoggingFile, show, show, superString, toggleInteractive, toString, toString, warning, warning, weird, weird

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FileType

public FileType()

Method Detail

getInstance

public java.io.File getInstance(java.lang.String value)

Description copied from class: ScalarType

If this is a reference type, build an appropriate Object, given a String representation. If it is a primitive type, return a boxed value.

Specified by:

getInstance in class ScalarType<java.io.File>

Parameters:

value - String representation of the instance.