org.jfree.report.content
Class AnchorContentFactoryModule

java.lang.Object
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public class AnchorContentFactoryModule

extends java.lang.Object

implements ContentFactoryModule

The anchor content factory-module is responsible for creating the AnchorContent from an element containing Anchors. The factory module expects either an Anchor element in the given element or converts the content of the element into a String and uses this string as Anchor value.

Author:

Thomas Morgner

See Also:

Anchor

Constructor Summary

AnchorContentFactoryModule()
Creates a new FactoryModule.

Method Summary

boolean	canHandleContent(java.lang.String contentType) Returns true if the module can handle the specified content type, and false otherwise.
static Content	createAnchor(java.lang.Object o, StrictPoint position) Creates an anchor content wrapper for the given object.
Content	createContentForElement(Element e, ElementLayoutInformation bounds, LayoutSupport ot) Creates content for an element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AnchorContentFactoryModule

public AnchorContentFactoryModule()

Creates a new FactoryModule.

Method Detail

canHandleContent

public boolean canHandleContent(java.lang.String contentType)

Returns true if the module can handle the specified content type, and false otherwise.

Specified by:

canHandleContent in interface ContentFactoryModule

Parameters:

contentType - the content type.

Returns:

true or false.

createContentForElement

public Content createContentForElement(Element e,
                                       ElementLayoutInformation bounds,
                                       LayoutSupport ot)
                                throws ContentCreationException

Creates content for an element.

Specified by:

createContentForElement in interface ContentFactoryModule

Parameters:

e - the element.

bounds - the bounds.

ot - the output target.

Returns:

the content.

Throws:

ContentCreationException - if there is a problem with the Content creation.

createAnchor

public static Content createAnchor(java.lang.Object o,
                                   StrictPoint position)

Creates an anchor content wrapper for the given object. If the object is an instance of Anchor, the content is generated directly, else the object's string representation is used to construct a new Anchor object.

Parameters:

o - the anchor or an arbitary object that should be converted into an Anchor.

position - the position of the anchor

Returns:

the created content