IEditableContent

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Interface IEditableContent

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public interface IEditableContent

Common interface for objects with editable contents. Typically it is implemented by objects that also implement the IStreamContentAccessor interface.

Clients may implement this interface.

Note that implementing IEditableContent does not automatically mean that it is editable. An object is only editable if it implements IEditableContent and the isEditable method returns true.

Method Summary

boolean isEditable()
          Returns true if this object can be modified.

ITypedElement replace(ITypedElement child, ITypedElement other)
          This method is called on a parent to add or remove a child, or to copy the contents of a child.

void setContent(byte[] newContent)
          Replaces the current content with the given new bytes.

Method Detail

isEditable

public boolean isEditable()

Returns true if this object can be modified. If it returns false the other methods of this API must not be called.

setContent

public void setContent(byte[] newContent)

Replaces the current content with the given new bytes.

replace

public ITypedElement replace(ITypedElement child,
                             ITypedElement other)

This method is called on a parent to add or remove a child, or to copy the contents of a child. What to do is encoded in the two arguments as follows:

add:	child == null	other != null
remove:	child != null	other == null
copy:	child != null	other != null