infovis.visualization
Class VisualizationFactory

java.lang.Object
  infovis.utils.BasicFactory
      infovis.visualization.VisualizationFactory

public class VisualizationFactory
extends BasicFactory

A VisualizationFactory is used to keep track of all the visualizations compatible with a specified data structure and to create the visualizations from the data structures.

Version:

$Revision: 1.14 $

Author:

Jean-Daniel Fekete

Nested Class Summary

static interface	VisualizationFactory.Creator
static class	VisualizationFactory.DefaultCreator

Constructor Summary

VisualizationFactory()

Method Summary

void	add(VisualizationFactory.Creator creator)
static void	addVisualizationFactory(VisualizationFactory.Creator c)
VisualizationFactory.Creator[]	getCompatibleCreators(Object table)
static VisualizationFactory	getInstance()
Iterator	iterator(Object table) Returns an iterator over the visualization creators compatible with the specified table.
void	setDefault(String name, Class tableClass, String visualizationClass)
static void	setInstance(VisualizationFactory shared)

Methods inherited from class infovis.utils.BasicFactory

loadProperties

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

VisualizationFactory

public VisualizationFactory()

Method Detail

getInstance

public static VisualizationFactory getInstance()

setInstance

public static void setInstance(VisualizationFactory shared)

add

public void add(VisualizationFactory.Creator creator)

addVisualizationFactory

public static void addVisualizationFactory(VisualizationFactory.Creator c)

setDefault

public void setDefault(String name,
                       Class tableClass,
                       String visualizationClass)

getCompatibleCreators

public VisualizationFactory.Creator[] getCompatibleCreators(Object table)

iterator

public Iterator iterator(Object table)

Returns an iterator over the visualization creators compatible with the specified table.

Parameters:

table - the table

Returns:

an iterator over the visualization creators compatible with the specified table.