org.biomoby.shared.datatypes
Class MobyBoolean

java.lang.Object
  org.biomoby.shared.datatypes.MobyObject
      org.biomoby.shared.datatypes.MobyBoolean

public class MobyBoolean
extends MobyObject

An object representing a Boolean, a Moby primitive data type.

The value of this object is stored internally as a string, but during setting it (setValue(java.lang.String)) it checks for its logical value.

Version:

$Id: MobyBoolean.java,v 1.2 2009/01/05 08:43:40 groscurt Exp $

Author:

Martin Senger

Constructor Summary

MobyBoolean()
Default constructor.

MobyBoolean(boolean value)
Another constructor.

Method Summary

boolean	getBooleanValue() Return the value of this object as a boolean.
void	setValue(String value) Additionally to the same method in the superclass, it checks for boolean value - but it takes always everything, so no exception thrown.
org.jdom.Element	toXML() Create an XML element representing this object.

Methods inherited from class org.biomoby.shared.datatypes.MobyObject

addXref, format, getId, getMobyTypeName, getName, getNamespace, getProvision, getValue, getXrefs, isPrimitiveType, setId, setName, setNamespace, setProvision, setValueXML, setXrefs, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MobyBoolean

public MobyBoolean()

Default constructor.

MobyBoolean

public MobyBoolean(boolean value)

Another constructor.

Parameters:

value - will become the value of this object.

Method Detail

toXML

public org.jdom.Element toXML()

Description copied from class: MobyObject

Create an XML element representing this object.

Overrides:

toXML in class MobyObject

Returns:

a jDom element that can be easily incorporated into a bigger XML document

setValue

public void setValue(String value)
              throws MobyException

Additionally to the same method in the superclass, it checks for boolean value - but it takes always everything, so no exception thrown.

Overrides:

setValue in class MobyObject

Parameters:

value - to be stored

Throws:

MobyException - actually it does not throw it

See Also:

how to set value as CDATA

getBooleanValue

public boolean getBooleanValue()

Return the value of this object as a boolean.

See Also:

MobyObject.getValue()