Package org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors

Class FileEditor

java.lang.Object

java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport

org.springframework.beans.propertyeditors.FileEditor

All Implemented Interfaces:

PropertyEditor

public class FileEditor
extends PropertyEditorSupport

Editor for java.io.File, to directly populate a File property from a Spring resource location.

Supports Spring-style URL notation: any fully qualified standard URL ("file:", "http:", etc) and Spring's special "classpath:" pseudo-URL.

NOTE: The behavior of this editor has changed in Spring 2.0. Previously, it created a File instance directly from a filename. As of Spring 2.0, it takes a standard Spring resource location as input; this is consistent with URLEditor and InputStreamEditor now.

NOTE: In Spring 2.5 the following modification was made. If a file name is specified without a URL prefix or without an absolute path then we try to locate the file using standard ResourceLoader semantics. If the file was not found, then a File instance is created assuming the file name refers to a relative file location.

Since:

09.12.2003

Author:

Juergen Hoeller, Thomas Risberg

See Also:

• File
• ResourceEditor
• ResourceLoader
• URLEditor
• InputStreamEditor

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FileEditor()	Create a new FileEditor, using a default ResourceEditor underneath.
FileEditor(ResourceEditor resourceEditor)	Create a new FileEditor, using the given ResourceEditor underneath.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getAsText()
void	setAsText(String text)

Methods inherited from class java.beans.PropertyEditorSupport

addPropertyChangeListener, firePropertyChange, getCustomEditor, getJavaInitializationString, getSource, getTags, getValue, isPaintable, paintValue, removePropertyChangeListener, setSource, setValue, supportsCustomEditor

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

FileEditor

public FileEditor()

Create a new FileEditor, using a default ResourceEditor underneath.

FileEditor

public FileEditor(ResourceEditor resourceEditor)

Create a new FileEditor, using the given ResourceEditor underneath.

Parameters:

resourceEditor - the ResourceEditor to use

Method Details

setAsText

public void setAsText(String text)
               throws IllegalArgumentException

Specified by:

setAsText in interface PropertyEditor

Overrides:

setAsText in class PropertyEditorSupport

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException

getAsText

public String getAsText()

Specified by:

getAsText in interface PropertyEditor

Overrides:

getAsText in class PropertyEditorSupport