org.dspace.content.virtual

Class Collected

java.lang.Object

org.dspace.content.virtual.Collected

All Implemented Interfaces:

VirtualMetadataConfiguration

public class Collected
extends Object
implements VirtualMetadataConfiguration

A bean implementing the VirtualMetadataConfiguration interface to achieve the generation of Virtual metadata The Collected bean will take all the values of each metadata field defined in the list and it'll create a list of virtual metadata fields defined by the map in which it's defined. All values from the metadata fields will returned as separate elements

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Collected()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<String>	getFields() Generic getter for the fields property
boolean	getUseForPlace() Generic getter for the useForPlace property
List<String>	getValues(Context context, Item item) this method will retrieve the metadata values from the given item for all the metadata fields listed in the fields property and it'll return all those values as a list
void	setFields(List<String> fields) Generic setter for the fields property
void	setUseForPlace(boolean useForPlace) Generic setter for the useForPlace property

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Collected

public Collected()

Method Detail

getFields

public List<String> getFields()

Generic getter for the fields property

Returns:

The list of fields to be used in this bean

setFields

public void setFields(List<String> fields)

Generic setter for the fields property

Parameters:

fields - the list of fields to which the fields property will be set to

setUseForPlace

public void setUseForPlace(boolean useForPlace)

Generic setter for the useForPlace property

Specified by:

setUseForPlace in interface VirtualMetadataConfiguration

Parameters:

useForPlace - The boolean value that the useForPlace property will be set to

getUseForPlace

public boolean getUseForPlace()

Generic getter for the useForPlace property

Specified by:

getUseForPlace in interface VirtualMetadataConfiguration

Returns:

The useForPlace to be used by this bean

getValues

public List<String> getValues(Context context,
                              Item item)

this method will retrieve the metadata values from the given item for all the metadata fields listed in the fields property and it'll return all those values as a list

Specified by:

getValues in interface VirtualMetadataConfiguration

Parameters:

context - The relevant DSpace context

item - The item that will be used to either retrieve metadata values from

Returns:

The String values for all of the retrieved metadatavalues