com.jrefinery.report.filter
Interface DataTarget

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, java.io.Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

DataFilter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DrawableFilter, Element, FormatFilter, FormatParser, ImageLoadFilter, ImageRefFilter, ResourceFileFilter, ShapeFilter, StringFilter, URLFilter

public interface DataTarget

extends java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

A DataTarget is a consumer in the DataProcessing chain. All Elements are DataTargets. Targets query their data from assigned DataSources.

Author:

Thomas Morgner

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	clone() Clones this datatarget.
DataSource	getDataSource() Returns the assigned DataSource for this Target.
void	setDataSource(DataSource ds) Assigns a DataSource for this Target.

Method Detail

getDataSource

public DataSource getDataSource()

Returns the assigned DataSource for this Target.

Returns:

The datasource.

setDataSource

public void setDataSource(DataSource ds)

Assigns a DataSource for this Target.

Parameters:

ds - The data source.

clone

public java.lang.Object clone()
                       throws java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException

Clones this datatarget.

Returns:

a clone of the datatarget.

Throws:

java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException - this should never happen.