com.ibm.wbi
Class Generator

com.ibm.wbi.Meg
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  +--com.ibm.wbi.Generator

Direct Known Subclasses:

HttpGenerator

public abstract class Generator

extends Meg

A Generator is responsible for producing a response in the Meg chain. The first Generator that matches conditions with the request and does not reject the request will be the only Generator allowed to service the request in the chain. A Generator is guaranteed to be run only after all RequestEditors matching the request are invoked.

Fields inherited from class com.ibm.wbi.Meg

COPYRIGHT, EDITOR, GENERATOR, MONITOR, REQUEST_EDITOR, UNDEFINED

Constructor Summary

Generator()
Constructs a new Generator with default characteristics and is enabled.

Generator(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String condition, int priority)
Constructs a new Generator with the specified characteristics and is enabled.

Generator(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String condition, int priority, boolean enabled)
Constructs a new Generator with the specified characteristics.

Method Summary

int	getType() Get the Meg type associated with a Generator.
abstract void	handleRequest(RequestEvent event) Handle the specified RequestEvent.

Methods inherited from class com.ibm.wbi.Meg

forwardRequest, getCondition, getEnabled, getMegProperty, getMegProperty, getMegPropertyKeys, getName, getPlugin, getPriority, getSystemContext, initialize, initialize, isEnabled, isMegApplicable, loadMegResources, run, setCondition, setEnabled, setMegProperty, setName, setPriority, setSystemContext, setup, setup, setup, setup

Constructor Detail

Generator

public Generator()

Constructs a new Generator with default characteristics and is enabled.

• name = New Generator
• condition = %true%
• priority = 1

Generator

public Generator(java.lang.String name,
                 java.lang.String condition,
                 int priority)

Constructs a new Generator with the specified characteristics and is enabled.

Parameters:

name - The name of the Generator.

condition - The condition under which this Generator should be invoked.

priority - The priority of the Generator incase of a condition tie.

Generator

public Generator(java.lang.String name,
                 java.lang.String condition,
                 int priority,
                 boolean enabled)

Constructs a new Generator with the specified characteristics.

Parameters:

name - The name of the Generator.

condition - The condition under which this Generator should be invoked.

priority - The priority of the Generator incase of a condition tie.

enabled - true if enabled.

Method Detail

getType

public int getType()

Get the Meg type associated with a Generator.

Overrides:

getType in class Meg

Returns:

This always returns Meg.GENERATOR.

handleRequest

public abstract void handleRequest(RequestEvent event)
                            throws RequestRejectedException,
                                   java.io.IOException

Handle the specified RequestEvent.

Overrides:

handleRequest in class Meg

Parameters:

event - The RequestEvent for the request to handle.

Throws:

RequestRejectedException - If rejecting request, this must be thrown before the first write() is made to the output stream.

java.io.IOException - If an error occurs parsing input or output streams