com.interface21.core
Interface ParameterizableErrorCoded

All Superinterfaces:

ErrorCoded

All Known Implementing Classes:

ParameterizableErrorCodedPropertyVetoException

public interface ParameterizableErrorCoded

extends ErrorCoded

Sub-interface that can be implemented by exceptions etc. that are error coded. The error code is a String, rather than a number, so it can be given user-readable values, such as "object.failureDescription". These codes will be resolved by a com.interface21.context.MessageSource object. The message itself may contain placeholders for parameters that need to be filled in. When this occurs it is necessary that your exception implement the ParameterizableErrorCoded interface, since it is the "Object[] getErrorArgs" method that will be called to fill in values for the placeholders.
This interface is necessary because both runtime and checked exceptions are useful, and they cannot share a common, framework-specific, superclass.

Version:

$Id: ParameterizableErrorCoded.java,v 1.3 2003/04/09 04:33:38 isabellem Exp $

Author:

Rod Johnson / Tony Falabella

Fields inherited from interface com.interface21.core.ErrorCoded

UNCODED

Method Summary

java.lang.Object[]

getErrorArgs() Return the Array of arguments that will be filled in for params within the message that is stored for the errorCode that will be looked up.

Methods inherited from interface com.interface21.core.ErrorCoded

getErrorCode

Method Detail

getErrorArgs

public java.lang.Object[] getErrorArgs()

Return the Array of arguments that will be filled in for params within the message that is stored for the errorCode that will be looked up. NOTE: params look like "{0}", "{1,date}", "{2,time}" within a message.

Returns:

An array of Objects representing the args that need to be passed into the String the errorCode will resolve to. Return null if there are no args that the message needs.

See Also:

java.text.MessageFormat