com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.taglib
Class AbstractTag

java.lang.Object
  javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport
      javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTagSupport
          com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.taglib.AbstractTag

All Implemented Interfaces:

BodyTag, IterationTag, RequestConstants, Serializable, Tag

Direct Known Subclasses:

BodyTag, HeadTag, PropertyTag, TitleTag, UsePageTag

public abstract class AbstractTag

extends BodyTagSupport

implements RequestConstants

Convenience implementation of Tag containing generice methods required by all (or most) taglibs.

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $

Author:

Joe Walnes

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

protected PageContext	pageContext
protected Tag	parent

Fields inherited from class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTagSupport

bodyContent

Fields inherited from class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

id

Fields inherited from interface com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.RequestConstants

DECORATOR, FILTER_APPLIED, PAGE, ROBOT, USING_STREAM

Fields inherited from interface javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTag

EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED, EVAL_BODY_TAG

Fields inherited from interface javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.IterationTag

EVAL_BODY_AGAIN

Fields inherited from interface javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.Tag

EVAL_BODY_INCLUDE, EVAL_PAGE, SKIP_BODY, SKIP_PAGE

Constructor Summary

AbstractTag()

Method Summary

abstract int	doEndTag() To be implemented by all empty tags.
int	doStartTag() Returns SKIP_BODY.
protected Writer	getOut() Get the outputWriter.
protected Page	getPage() Return the Page object from the PAGE scope.
Tag	getParent()
void	release()
void	setPageContext(PageContext pageContext)
void	setParent(Tag parent)
protected static void	trace(Exception e) Log exception generated by taglib.

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTagSupport

doAfterBody, doInitBody, getBodyContent, getPreviousOut, setBodyContent

Methods inherited from class javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.TagSupport

findAncestorWithClass, getId, getValue, getValues, removeValue, setId, setValue

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

pageContext

protected PageContext pageContext

parent

protected Tag parent

Constructor Detail

AbstractTag

public AbstractTag()

Method Detail

doEndTag

public abstract int doEndTag()
                      throws JspException

To be implemented by all empty tags.

Specified by:

doEndTag in interface Tag

Throws:

JspException

doStartTag

public int doStartTag()

Returns SKIP_BODY.

Specified by:

doStartTag in interface Tag

release

public void release()

Specified by:

release in interface Tag

getParent

public Tag getParent()

Specified by:

getParent in interface Tag

setParent

public void setParent(Tag parent)

Specified by:

setParent in interface Tag

setPageContext

public void setPageContext(PageContext pageContext)

Specified by:

setPageContext in interface Tag

getPage

protected Page getPage()

Return the Page object from the PAGE scope. If this is found in REQUEST scope instead, it will be moved into PAGE scope - to handle multi-level includes.

trace

protected static void trace(Exception e)

Log exception generated by taglib.

getOut

protected Writer getOut()

Get the outputWriter. This method should be used in preference to pageContext.getOut(), as some charset conversions may need to happen in some servers.

Returns:

the writer for use in the tag