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public interface

WebFormatContainer

com.microstrategy.web.objects.WebFormatContainer
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

This is a container of WebFormat objects. It exists on the template, as part of every WebTemplateUnit, WebAxis, and WebTemplateMetric object. This class contains the formatting information for the object which it came from, and can be modified to change the formatting of the owner object.

Summary

Public Methods
abstract WebFormat getGridFormat()
Returns the grid format object.
abstract WebFormat getHeaderFormat()
Returns the header format object.
abstract WebFormat getSubtotalGridFormat()
Returns the subtotal grid format object.
abstract WebFormat getSubtotalHeaderFormat()
Returns the subtotal header format object.
abstract void setDefaultForProperty(int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName)
Set the default value for a specific format property.
abstract void setDefaultForProperty(int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName, boolean propagate)
Set the default value for a specific format property.
abstract void setDefaultFormat(int formatType, boolean propagate)
Set the indicated type of format (header, grid, subtotal header, or subtotal grid) object to its default value.
abstract void setDefaultFormat(int formatType)
Set the indicated type of format (header, grid, subtotal header, or subtotal grid) object to its default value.
abstract void setDefaultFormats(boolean propagate)
Sets all format objects in this container to the default format.
abstract void setDefaultFormats()
This method sets all format objects in this container to the default values.
abstract void setFormatProperty(int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName, String value, boolean propagate)
Sets the value for a specific format property.
abstract void setFormatProperty(int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName, String value)
Sets the value for a specific format property.

Public Methods

public abstract WebFormat getGridFormat ()

Returns the grid format object. This can be used to examine or change the grid format of the object.

Returns
  • A WebFormat object, which contains all of the grid format information.

public abstract WebFormat getHeaderFormat ()

Returns the header format object. This can be used to examine or change the header format of the object.

Returns
  • A WebFormat object, which contains all of the header format information.

public abstract WebFormat getSubtotalGridFormat ()

Returns the subtotal grid format object. This can be used to examine or change the subtotal grid format of the object. Note that if the format container came from a WebTemplateMetric object, it has no subtotal grid format associated with it.

Returns
  • A WebFormat object, which contains all of the subtotal grid format information.
Throws
UnsupportedOperationException Thrown if the object which the format container came from was a WebTemplateMetric object.

public abstract WebFormat getSubtotalHeaderFormat ()

Returns the subtotal header format object. This can be used to examine or change the subtotal header format of the object. Note that if the format container came from a WebTemplateMetric object, it has no subtotal header format associated with it.

Returns
  • A WebFormat object, which contains all of the subtotal header format information.
Throws
UnsupportedOperationException Thrown if the object which the format container came from was a WebTemplateMetric object.

public abstract void setDefaultForProperty (int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName)

Set the default value for a specific format property.

Parameters
formatType A value from EnumWebFormatType which indicates the format type.
propertySetName The name of the property set.
propertyName The name of the property.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException Thrown if the formatType is not one of the values in EnumWebFormatType.
UnsupportedOperationException Thrown if the format type given does not exist in this format container. This will happen when specifying one of the subtotal format objects when the format container came from a template metric.

public abstract void setDefaultForProperty (int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName, boolean propagate)

Set the default value for a specific format property. If the propagate option is set to true, then if the unit which contains this format container has child units which can contain format containers, this method will propagate the changes made by this method to those objects.

Parameters
formatType A value from EnumWebFormatType which indicates the format type.
propertySetName The name of the property set.
propertyName The name of the property.
propagate If this is true, the effects of this method will be propagated to child units of the unit the format container came from.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException Thrown if the formatType is not one of the values in EnumWebFormatType.
UnsupportedOperationException Thrown if the format type given does not exist in this format container. This will happen when specifying one of the subtotal format objects when the format container came from a template metric.

public abstract void setDefaultFormat (int formatType, boolean propagate)

Set the indicated type of format (header, grid, subtotal header, or subtotal grid) object to its default value. If the propagate option is set to true, then if the unit which contains this format container has child units which can contain format containers, this method will also set those format objects to the default values.

Parameters
formatType A value from EnumWebFormatType to indicate the format type which will be reset to its default value.
propagate If this is true, the effects of this method will be propagated to child units of the unit the format container came from.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException If formatType is not in the EnumWebFormatType enumeration, this error will be thrown.
UnsupportedOperationException If the type passed in does not exist on the object this format container was obtained from (i.e. a subtotal-related format on a metric), this error will be thrown.

public abstract void setDefaultFormat (int formatType)

Set the indicated type of format (header, grid, subtotal header, or subtotal grid) object to its default value.

Parameters
formatType A value from EnumWebFormatType to indicate the format type which will be reset to its default value.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException If formatType is not in the EnumWebFormatType enumeration, or the type passed in does not exist on the object this format container was obtained from, this error will be thrown.
UnsupportedOperationException If the type passed in does not exist on the object this format container was obtained from (i.e. a subtotal-related format on a metric), this error will be thrown.

public abstract void setDefaultFormats (boolean propagate)

Sets all format objects in this container to the default format. If the propagate option is set to true, then if the unit which contains this format container has child units which can contain format containers, this method will also set those objects to the default values.

Parameters
propagate If this is true, the effects of this method will be propagated to child units of the unit the format container came from.

public abstract void setDefaultFormats ()

This method sets all format objects in this container to the default values.

public abstract void setFormatProperty (int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName, String value, boolean propagate)

Sets the value for a specific format property. If the propagate option is set to true, then if the unit which contains this format container has child units which can contain format containers, this method will propagate the changes made by this method to those objects.

Parameters
formatType A value from EnumWebFormatType specifying the format object whose value will be changed.
propertySetName The name of the property set.
propertyName The name of the property.
value The value to be set for the specified property.
propagate If this is true, the effects of this method will be propagated to child units of the unit the format container came from.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException Thrown if the format type is not a valid type.
UnsupportedOperationException Thrown if the given format type does not exist for the object which the format container was obtained from.

public abstract void setFormatProperty (int formatType, String propertySetName, String propertyName, String value)

Sets the value for a specific format property.

Parameters
formatType A value from EnumWebFormatType specifying the format object whose value will be changed.
propertySetName The name of the property set.
propertyName The name of the property.
value The value to be set for the specified property.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException Thrown if the format type is not a valid type.
UnsupportedOperationException Thrown if the given format type does not exist for the object which the format container was obtained from.