org.rhq.core.clientapi.agent.metadata
Class SubCategoriesMetadataParser

java.lang.Object
  org.rhq.core.clientapi.agent.metadata.SubCategoriesMetadataParser

public class SubCategoriesMetadataParser
extends Object

Parser responsible for translating the subcategories section of the rhq-plugin.xml descriptor into domain objects. Also has methods which deal with translating the subcategory="blah" attribute on Platform/Server/Service ojbects into an actual ResourceSubCategory object

Constructor Summary

SubCategoriesMetadataParser()

Method Summary

static ResourceSubCategory	findSubCategoryOnResourceTypeAncestor(ResourceType resourceType, String subCategoryName) Given a resourceType this method looks on the parent resourcetypes/grandparent resourcetypes... of the specified resourceType to see if a child ResourceSubCategory with the specified name has been defined on one of them.
static ResourceSubCategory	getSubCategory(SubCategoryDescriptor descriptor, ResourceType resourceType) Parses the contents of the SubCategoryDescriptor and populates an instance of the domain model representation, ResourceSubCategory

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SubCategoriesMetadataParser

public SubCategoriesMetadataParser()

Method Detail

getSubCategory

public static ResourceSubCategory getSubCategory(SubCategoryDescriptor descriptor,
                                                 ResourceType resourceType)

Parses the contents of the SubCategoryDescriptor and populates an instance of the domain model representation, ResourceSubCategory

Parameters:

descriptor - non-null SubCategoryDescriptor.

Returns:

domain model object populated with the descriptor's values.

findSubCategoryOnResourceTypeAncestor

@Nullable
public static ResourceSubCategory findSubCategoryOnResourceTypeAncestor(@NotNull
                                                                                 ResourceType resourceType,
                                                                                 @Nullable
                                                                                 String subCategoryName)

Given a resourceType this method looks on the parent resourcetypes/grandparent resourcetypes... of the specified resourceType to see if a child ResourceSubCategory with the specified name has been defined on one of them. If the ResourceSubCategory cannot be found, null will be returned

Parameters:

resourceType -

subCategoryName -

Returns: