org.jdesktop.swingx.editors
Class PainterUtil.AbstractPainterDelegate

java.lang.Object
  extended by java.beans.PersistenceDelegate
      extended by java.beans.DefaultPersistenceDelegate
          extended by org.jdesktop.swingx.editors.PainterUtil.AbstractPainterDelegate
Enclosing class:
PainterUtil

public static final class PainterUtil.AbstractPainterDelegate
extends DefaultPersistenceDelegate


Constructor Summary
PainterUtil.AbstractPainterDelegate()
           
 
Method Summary
protected  void initialize(Class type, Object oldInstance, Object newInstance, Encoder out)
          This default implementation of the initialize method assumes all state held in objects of this type is exposed via the matching pairs of "setter" and "getter" methods in the order they are returned by the Introspector.
 
Methods inherited from class java.beans.DefaultPersistenceDelegate
instantiate, mutatesTo
 
Methods inherited from class java.beans.PersistenceDelegate
writeObject
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

PainterUtil.AbstractPainterDelegate

public PainterUtil.AbstractPainterDelegate()
Method Detail

initialize

protected void initialize(Class type,
                          Object oldInstance,
                          Object newInstance,
                          Encoder out)
Description copied from class: java.beans.DefaultPersistenceDelegate
This default implementation of the initialize method assumes all state held in objects of this type is exposed via the matching pairs of "setter" and "getter" methods in the order they are returned by the Introspector. If a property descriptor defines a "transient" attribute with a value equal to Boolean.TRUE the property is ignored by this default implementation. Note that this use of the word "transient" is quite independent of the field modifier that is used by the ObjectOutputStream.

For each non-transient property, an expression is created in which the nullary "getter" method is applied to the oldInstance. The value of this expression is the value of the property in the instance that is being serialized. If the value of this expression in the cloned environment mutatesTo the target value, the new value is initialized to make it equivalent to the old value. In this case, because the property value has not changed there is no need to call the corresponding "setter" method and no statement is emitted. If not however, the expression for this value is replaced with another expression (normally a constructor) and the corresponding "setter" method is called to install the new property value in the object. This scheme removes default information from the output produced by streams using this delegate.

In passing these statements to the output stream, where they will be executed, side effects are made to the newInstance. In most cases this allows the problem of properties whose values depend on each other to actually help the serialization process by making the number of statements that need to be written to the output smaller. In general, the problem of handling interdependent properties is reduced to that of finding an order for the properties in a class such that no property value depends on the value of a subsequent property.

Overrides:
initialize in class DefaultPersistenceDelegate
oldInstance - The instance to be copied.
newInstance - The instance that is to be modified.
out - The stream to which any initialization statements should be written.
See Also:
Introspector.getBeanInfo(java.lang.Class), PropertyDescriptor