001 // Copyright 2004, 2005 The Apache Software Foundation 002 // 003 // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 004 // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 005 // You may obtain a copy of the License at 006 // 007 // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 008 // 009 // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 010 // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 011 // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 012 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 013 // limitations under the License. 014 015 package org.apache.tapestry.spec; 016 017 /** 018 * Defines the different types of bindings possible for a component. These are used in the 019 * {@link IBindingSpecification} and ultimately used to create an instance of 020 * {@link org.apache.tapestry.IBinding}. 021 * 022 * @author Howard Lewis Ship 023 */ 024 025 public final class BindingType 026 { 027 /** 028 * Indicates that the binding value is a prefixed locator, ready for use with 029 * {@link org.apache.tapestry.binding.BindingSource}. 030 */ 031 032 public static final BindingType PREFIXED = new BindingType("PREFIXED"); 033 034 public static final BindingType INHERITED = new BindingType("INHERITED"); 035 036 /** 037 * Indicates a {@link org.apache.tapestry.binding.ListenerBinding}, a specialized kind of 038 * binding that encapsulates a component listener as a script. Uses a subclass of 039 * {@link BindingSpecification},{@link ListenerBindingSpecification}. 040 * {@link IListenerBindingSpecification}. 041 * 042 * @since 3.0 043 */ 044 045 public static final BindingType LISTENER = new BindingType("LISTENER"); 046 047 private final String _name; 048 049 private BindingType(String name) 050 { 051 _name = name; 052 } 053 054 public String toString() 055 { 056 return "BindingType[" + _name + "]"; 057 } 058 }