net.sourceforge.groboutils.pmti.v1
Interface IEditableAttribute

All Superinterfaces:

IAttribute

All Known Subinterfaces:

IEditableListAttribute

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEditableAttribute, AbstractEditableListAttribute

public interface IEditableAttribute

extends IAttribute

A simple name-value association for a specific kind of issue attribute. All implementations of IAttribute are immutable, unless they also implement IEditableAttribute.

Since:

July 6, 2002

Version:

$Date: 2003/02/10 22:51:54 $

Author:

Matt Albrecht groboclown@users.sourceforge.net

Method Summary

boolean	hasValueChanged()
boolean	isValidValue(java.lang.Object value) Checks if the given value is a valid input value for the setValue( Object ) method.
void	setValue(java.lang.Object value)

Methods inherited from interface net.sourceforge.groboutils.pmti.v1.IAttribute

getInfo, getValue

Method Detail

setValue

public void setValue(java.lang.Object value)

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - thrown if the value argument is invalid.

hasValueChanged

public boolean hasValueChanged()

Returns:

true if the setValue( Object ) method has been called on this instance and the actual value has changed (via inspection with == and equals()), otherwise false.

isValidValue

public boolean isValidValue(java.lang.Object value)

Checks if the given value is a valid input value for the setValue( Object ) method.