net.sf.sfac.setting
Interface ProfilesClient

public interface ProfilesClient

Interface provided by objects using profiles.
The profile client must:

• Provide a global Settings object that will contain the profiles (as a SubSettingList).
• Provide a currentSubSettings object (which is usually a SubSettingsProxy of the global settings) that contains the values that are "profiled".

The currentSubSettings must be used by all the objects wanting to see the "profile" data. Then you can use a ProfileController in your application to manage profiles. The profiles are copies of the currentSubSettings that can be saved and restored.

To create and 'save' a profile, the controller:

• calls getCurrentSubSettings() to have the settings to save. At this stage all objects using this settings must have correctly stored the value they want to persist in this settings.
• Make a copy of is and 'store' it in a SubSettingList inside the global settings.

To restore a profile, the controller:

• calls updateCurrentSubSettings(Settings profile) to update the current settings with values of the restored profile. It's up to the client to correctly update the current sub-settings. this is done usually doing (assuming that the current sub-settings is an instance of SubSettingProxy):

       currentSubSettings.clear()
       currentSubSettings.copyValues(profile)
   

Author:

Olivier Berlanger

Method Summary

Settings	getCurrentSubSettings()
Settings	getGlobalSettings()
void	updateCurrentSubSettings(Settings profile)

Method Detail

getGlobalSettings

Settings getGlobalSettings()

getCurrentSubSettings

Settings getCurrentSubSettings()

updateCurrentSubSettings

void updateCurrentSubSettings(Settings profile)