er.directtoweb

Class ERD2WRule

java.lang.Object

com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule

er.directtoweb.ERD2WRule

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving, Serializable

public class ERD2WRule
extends com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule

Rule class that works around two problems:

• when you have an assignment class that is not present in the classpath then the model will not load, making for very strange errors. We replace the missing class with the normal assignment class and log the error.
• when evaluating rule priorities, the default is to place rules containing pageConfiguration keys so high up that they will get preferred over rules without such a condition, but with a higher author setting. This is pretty ridiculous and leads to having to set ... AND (pageConfiguration like '*') in all the conditions.
  We place rules with a pageConfiguration so high that they will be higher than rules with the same author setting but lower than a rule with a higher setting.

In order to be usable with the D2WClient and Rule editor, we also patch the encoded dictionary so these tools find no trace of the patched rules.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Author:

ak

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving

com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving._NullValueSupport, com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving._NumberSupport, com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving._TimestampSupport, com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving.Awaking, com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving.FinishInitialization, com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving.Support

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule

authorKey, DIRECT_2_WEB, lhsKey, rhsKey, WEB_ASSISTANT, WEB_ASSISTANT_PAGE_AVAILABLE

Fields inherited from interface com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving

_CLASS

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ERD2WRule()
ERD2WRule(com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueUnarchiver eokeyvalueunarchiver)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	assignmentClassName()
ERD2WRule	cloneRule()
static Object	decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver(com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueUnarchiver eokeyvalueunarchiver)
void	encodeWithKeyValueArchiver(com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiver eokeyvaluearchiver) Overridden to patch the normal rule class name into the generated dictionary.
int	priority() Overridden to work around
String	toString() Builds a string like:

Methods inherited from class com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule

_lhsToString, author, canFireInContext, compareRules, createAssignment, dataTypesInvolved, dynamicPagesInvolved, fire, firstDynamicPageNameInvolved, firstEntityInvolved, firstPropertyKeyInvolved, firstTaskInvolved, hasSameSettingsAs, isEntityPermissionRule, isEntityRule, isLookRule, isStartupRule, isTaskRule, lhs, rhs, rhsKeyPath, rhsKeyPathHash, setLhs, setRhs, tasksInvolved

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ERD2WRule

public ERD2WRule()

ERD2WRule

public ERD2WRule(com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueUnarchiver eokeyvalueunarchiver)

Method Detail

decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver

public static Object decodeWithKeyValueUnarchiver(com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueUnarchiver eokeyvalueunarchiver)

encodeWithKeyValueArchiver

public void encodeWithKeyValueArchiver(com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiver eokeyvaluearchiver)

Overridden to patch the normal rule class name into the generated dictionary.

Specified by:

encodeWithKeyValueArchiver in interface com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiving

Overrides:

encodeWithKeyValueArchiver in class com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule

See Also:

EOKeyValueArchiving.encodeWithKeyValueArchiver(com.webobjects.eocontrol.EOKeyValueArchiver)

priority

public int priority()

Overridden to work around

Overrides:

priority in class com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule

See Also:

Rule.priority()

assignmentClassName

public String assignmentClassName()

cloneRule

public ERD2WRule cloneRule()

toString

public String toString()

Builds a string like:

   100: ((entity.name = 'Bug') and (task = 'edit')) => isInspectable = true [com.directtowen.BooleanAssignment]

Overrides:

toString in class com.webobjects.directtoweb.Rule

Returns:

a nice description of the rule