chemaxon.alchemist
Class AlchemistProfile

java.lang.Object
  chemaxon.alchemist.AlchemistProfile

public class AlchemistProfile
extends java.lang.Object

This is a Profile for various categorized property key-value pairs used by Alchemist based applications and components.
Keys are hierarchical by convention: "application.subcategories.key"-like Strings
Values are XML-Encodable objects.
Reading and writing process is handled with XMLEncoder and XMLDecoder

Author:

Istvan Cseh

See Also:

XMLEncoder, XMLDecoder

Constructor Summary

AlchemistProfile()
Constructs an empty AlchemistProfile

Method Summary

void	clear() Removes all key-value mappings.
boolean	containsKey(java.lang.String key) Returns true if there is mapping for specified key
java.lang.Object	get(java.lang.String key) Returns the value specified by key Returns null if no such key exists
boolean	isEmpty() Returns true if this profile contains no key-value pairs
void	put(java.lang.String key, java.lang.Object value) Stores the value with the specified key
void	read(java.io.InputStream inputStream) Reads the profile from stream
java.lang.Object	remove(java.lang.String key) Removes the value specified by key
java.lang.String	toString()
void	write(java.io.OutputStream outputStream) Writes the profile to stream

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AlchemistProfile

public AlchemistProfile()

Constructs an empty AlchemistProfile

Method Detail

put

public void put(java.lang.String key,
                java.lang.Object value)

Stores the value with the specified key

Parameters:

key - is the key

value - is the value

get

public java.lang.Object get(java.lang.String key)

Returns the value specified by key Returns null if no such key exists

Parameters:

key - is the key

Returns:

the value, or null

remove

public java.lang.Object remove(java.lang.String key)

Removes the value specified by key

Parameters:

key - is the key to be removed

Returns:

the value for specified key

clear

public void clear()

Removes all key-value mappings.

containsKey

public boolean containsKey(java.lang.String key)

Returns true if there is mapping for specified key

Parameters:

key - is the key

Returns:

true if there is mapping for specified key

isEmpty

public boolean isEmpty()

Returns true if this profile contains no key-value pairs

Returns:

true if this profile contains no key-value pairs

read

public void read(java.io.InputStream inputStream)

Reads the profile from stream

Parameters:

inputStream - is the stream read profile from

write

public void write(java.io.OutputStream outputStream)

Writes the profile to stream

Parameters:

outputStream - is the stream write profile to

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object