public TextFieldType() 
{

}

 public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException 
{
    return super.clone();
}

Clones this DataSource.

 public ElementMetaData getMetaData() 
{
    if (elementType == null)
    {
      elementType = ElementTypeRegistry.getInstance().getElementType("text-field");
    }
    return elementType;
}

 public Object getValue(ExpressionRuntime runtime,
    Element element) 
{
    if (runtime == null)
    {
      throw new NullPointerException("Runtime must never be null.");
    }
    if (element == null)
    {
      throw new NullPointerException("Element must never be null.");
    }
    final Object retval = ElementTypeUtils.toString(ElementTypeUtils.queryFieldOrValue(runtime, element));
    if (retval == null)
    {
      return element.getAttribute(AttributeNames.Core.NAMESPACE, AttributeNames.Core.NULL_VALUE);
    }
    return String.valueOf(retval);
}

Returns the current value for the data source.