org.zkoss.zk.ui.sys

Interface IdGenerator

All Known Implementing Classes:

LegacyDesktopIdGenerator, StaticIdGenerator

public interface IdGenerator

Used to generate UUID of components and pages and ID of desktops.

To create an ID generator that generates the same set of IDs from one test run to anther, you need only to implement nextDesktopId(org.zkoss.zk.ui.Desktop) to return a deterministic value. All other methods just return null to use the default.

Since:

2.4.1

Author:

tomyeh

See Also:

Component.getUuid(), Page.getUuid(), Desktop.getId()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default java.lang.String	nextComponentUuid(Desktop desktop, Component comp, ComponentInfo compInfo) Returns the next component UUID for the specified component, or null to generate the default UUID.
default java.lang.String	nextDesktopId(Desktop desktop) Returns the next desktop ID for the specified desktop, or null to generate the default ID.
default java.lang.String	nextPageUuid(Page page) Returns the next page UUID for the specified page, or null to generate the default UUID.

Method Detail

nextComponentUuid

default java.lang.String nextComponentUuid(Desktop desktop,
                                           Component comp,
                                           ComponentInfo compInfo)

Returns the next component UUID for the specified component, or null to generate the default UUID.

Default (if null is returned): UUID is generated by prefixing a portion of the desktop's ID with a number starting from 0.

Notice that UUID cannot be empty and can only have alphanumeric characters or underscore (i.e., a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and _).

This method is called when Component.getUuid() is called at the first time. It is usually when the component is attached to a page, unless the application invokes Component.getUuid() earlier.

Parameters:

desktop - the current desktop (never null)

comp - the component (never null)

compInfo - the information about the properties specified in the ZUML document, null if the component is instantiated manually.

Returns:

the next component UUID, or null to generate the

Since:

6.0.1

nextPageUuid

default java.lang.String nextPageUuid(Page page)

Returns the next page UUID for the specified page, or null to generate the default UUID.

Default (if null is returned): UUID is generated by prefixing a portion of the desktop's ID with a number starting from 0.

Notice that UUID cannot be empty and can only have alphanumeric characters or underscore (i.e., a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and _). In additions, UUID for pages cannot be the same as UUID for components.

Also notice that the execution can be retrieved by use of Executions.getCurrent().

Returns:

the next page UUID, or null to generate the default UUID.

nextDesktopId

default java.lang.String nextDesktopId(Desktop desktop)

Returns the next desktop ID for the specified desktop, or null to generate the default ID.

Default (if null is returned): ID is generated randomly. In other words, the desktop's ID, by default, is not deterministic. To have a deterministic value, you have to implement this method.

Notice that UUID cannot be empty and can only have alphanumeric characters or underscore (i.e., a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and _).

Also notice that we can retrieve the execution by use of Desktop.getExecution(), or Executions.getCurrent().

Returns:

the next desktop ID, or null to generate the default ID.