org.dspace.content.virtual

Class Concatenate

java.lang.Object

org.dspace.content.virtual.Concatenate

All Implemented Interfaces:

VirtualMetadataConfiguration

public class Concatenate
extends Object
implements VirtualMetadataConfiguration

A bean implementing the VirtualMetadataConfiguration interface to achieve the generation of Virtual metadata The Concatenate bean will take all the values of each metadata field configured in the list and it will join all of these together with the separator defined in this bean. This means that whichever entry this bean belongs to, that metadata field will have the value of the related item's metadata values joined together with this separator. Only one value will be returned

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Concatenate()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<String>	getFields() Generic getter for the fields property
String	getSeparator() Generic getter for the seperator
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 concatenate all those values together with the separator specified in this class
void	setFields(List<String> fields) Generic setter for the fields property
void	setSeparator(String separator) Generic setter for the seperator 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

Concatenate

public Concatenate()

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

getSeparator

public String getSeparator()

Generic getter for the seperator

Returns:

the seperator to be used by this bean

setSeparator

public void setSeparator(String separator)

Generic setter for the seperator property

Parameters:

separator - The String seperator value to which this seperator value 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 concatenate all those values together with the separator specified in this class

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 value for all of the retrieved metadatavalues combined with the separator