001 /* ObjectView.java -- A view for HTML object tags 002 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package javax.swing.text.html; 040 041 import java.awt.Component; 042 043 import javax.swing.text.AttributeSet; 044 import javax.swing.text.ComponentView; 045 import javax.swing.text.Element; 046 047 /** 048 * A view for HTML <code><object></code> tags. 049 * 050 * This is a {@link ComponentView} that creates special components depending 051 * on the object specification. If the object tag has a classid attribute, then 052 * this view will try to load the class specified by this attribute using the 053 * classloader that loaded the associated document. If the class could be 054 * loaded, an instance is created and the type narrowed to {@link Component}. 055 * 056 * It is also possible to set bean properties on the created component using 057 * nested <code><param></code> tags. For example: 058 * <pre> 059 * <object classid="javax.swing.JLabel"> 060 * <param name="text" value="sample text"> 061 * </object> 062 * </pre> 063 * 064 * @author Roman Kennke (kennke@aicas.com) 065 */ 066 public class ObjectView extends ComponentView 067 { 068 069 /** 070 * Creates a new <code>ObjectView</code>. 071 * 072 * @param el the element for which to create a view 073 */ 074 public ObjectView(Element el) 075 { 076 super(el); 077 } 078 079 /** 080 * Creates a component based on the specification in the element of this 081 * view. See the class description for details. 082 */ 083 protected Component createComponent() 084 { 085 Component comp = null; 086 Element el = getElement(); 087 AttributeSet atts = el.getAttributes(); 088 String classId = (String) atts.getAttribute("classid"); 089 try 090 { 091 Class<?> objectClass = Class.forName(classId); 092 Object instance = objectClass.newInstance(); 093 comp = (Component) instance; 094 } 095 catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) 096 { 097 // Ignored. 098 } 099 catch (IllegalAccessException ex) 100 { 101 // Ignored. 102 } 103 catch (InstantiationException ex) 104 { 105 // Ignored. 106 } 107 // FIXME: Handle param tags and set bean properties accordingly. 108 return comp; 109 } 110 }