sos.reports
Interface TableFormat

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultTableFormat, TableFormatAdapter

public interface TableFormat

An object that controls the formatting of report tables. It supplies the attributes for table, tier, and cell elements.

Table formatting may include header rows are bold, tables have a border, and footer cells have font size 12, for example.

Since:

1.0

See Also:

TableFormats, ReportStyleConstants, TableElement

Method Summary

javax.swing.text.AttributeSet	getCellAttributes(CellElement cellElement) Returns the attributes to use for the specified cell element.
javax.swing.text.AttributeSet	getTableAttributes(TableElement tableElement) Returns the attributes to use for the table element.
javax.swing.text.AttributeSet	getTierAttributes(TierElement tierElement) Returns the attributes to use for the specified tier element.

Method Detail

getTierAttributes

public javax.swing.text.AttributeSet getTierAttributes(TierElement tierElement)

Returns the attributes to use for the specified tier element.

Parameters:

tierElement - row or column for which the attributes are desired

Returns:

a set of attributes for tierElement

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if tierElement is null

getCellAttributes

public javax.swing.text.AttributeSet getCellAttributes(CellElement cellElement)

Returns the attributes to use for the specified cell element.

Parameters:

cellElement - cell for which the attributes are desired

Returns:

a set of attributes for cellElement

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if cellElement is null

getTableAttributes

public javax.swing.text.AttributeSet getTableAttributes(TableElement tableElement)

Returns the attributes to use for the table element.

Parameters:

tableElement - table for which the attributes are desired

Returns:

a set of attributes for tableElement

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if tableElement is null