org.mentawai.filter
Class MessagesFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.mentawai.core.InputWrapper
      org.mentawai.filter.MessagesFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Map, Filter, Input

public class MessagesFilter
extends InputWrapper
implements Filter

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface java.util.Map

Map.Entry<K,V>

Constructor Summary

MessagesFilter(String name)

Method Summary

void	destroy() Gives a chance to the filter to deallocalte any resources before it is destroyed.
String	filter(InvocationChain chain) Executes the filter.
Object	getValue(String name) Gets a parameter value (any object) with the given name.

Methods inherited from class org.mentawai.core.InputWrapper

clear, containsKey, containsValue, entries, entrySet, get, getBoolean, getBoolean, getBooleanValue, getBooleanValue, getDate, getDate, getDate, getDouble, getDouble, getDoubleValue, getDoubleValue, getEnum, getEnums, getFloat, getFloat, getFloatValue, getFloatValue, getHeader, getHeaderKeys, getInt, getInt, getInts, getIntValue, getIntValue, getIntValues, getLong, getLong, getLongs, getLongValue, getLongValue, getObject, getObject, getProperty, getString, getStrings, getStringValue, getStringValues, has, hasValue, inject, inject, isEmpty, keys, keySet, put, putAll, remove, removeInput, removeValue, setInput, setValue, size, values

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface java.util.Map

equals, hashCode

Constructor Detail

MessagesFilter

public MessagesFilter(String name)

Method Detail

filter

public String filter(InvocationChain chain)
              throws Exception

Description copied from interface: Filter

Executes the filter.

Specified by:

filter in interface Filter

Parameters:

chain - The InvocationChain for the action this filter is being applied to.

Returns:

The result of the filter or the action the filter is being applied to.

Throws:

Exception

getValue

public Object getValue(String name)

Description copied from interface: Input

Gets a parameter value (any object) with the given name.

Specified by:

getValue in interface Input

Overrides:

getValue in class InputWrapper

Parameters:

name - the name of the parameter

Returns:

the parameter value (any object) or null if it doesn't exist.

destroy

public void destroy()

Description copied from interface: Filter

Gives a chance to the filter to deallocalte any resources before it is destroyed. This is called when the web application is stopped, in other words, this has nothing to do with garbage collection.

Specified by:

destroy in interface Filter