org.embl.ebi.escience.scuflui.spi
Interface ResultMapSaveSPI

All Known Implementing Classes:

SaveAsDataThingDocument, SaveAsExcel, SaveToFileSystem, SaveToFileSystemMappingLSIDs

public interface ResultMapSaveSPI

Implementing classes are capable of storing a collection of DataThing objects held in a result map. The simplest current implementation of this will create a directory structure on disk to hold the results and populate it, others could generate Excel or populate some kind of SRB system, not that we're using the SRB at all, heaven forbid. Obviously I meant the MIR. Yes. That would be it.

Author:

Tom Oinn

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getDescription() Get a description of the storage method, can be arbitrarily long.
javax.swing.Icon	getIcon() Get an icon to be used for display purposes in the result browser interface.
java.awt.event.ActionListener	getListener(java.util.Map resultMap, javax.swing.JComponent parent) Get an action listener which will be bound to the appropriate UI component used to trigger the save operation.
java.lang.String	getName() Get a short display name for the storage method, should be a sensible length for appearance in a context menu so 'Save to Excel' and similar rather than anything more florid.

Method Detail

getIcon

javax.swing.Icon getIcon()

Get an icon to be used for display purposes in the result browser interface. If this returns null then a default icon will be used

getDescription

java.lang.String getDescription()

Get a description of the storage method, can be arbitrarily long. Please feel free to put as much detail as possible in here.

getName

java.lang.String getName()

Get a short display name for the storage method, should be a sensible length for appearance in a context menu so 'Save to Excel' and similar rather than anything more florid.

getListener

java.awt.event.ActionListener getListener(java.util.Map resultMap,
                                          javax.swing.JComponent parent)

Get an action listener which will be bound to the appropriate UI component used to trigger the save operation. We should possibly be using the Swing Action support for this but this should work okay for now. The Map passed into this method contains the String -> DataThing name to value pairs returned by the current set of results. The actual listener may well wish to display some kind of dialog, for example in the case of an Excel export plugin it would be reasonable to give the user some choice over where the results would be inserted into the sheet, and also where the generated file would be stored.

The parent parameter is optional and may be set to null, if not it is assumed to be the parent component in the UI which caused this action to be created, this allows save dialogs etc to be placed correctly.