org.exolab.castor.xml.schema
Class TypeReference

java.lang.Object
  org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.Structure
      org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.Annotated
          org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.XMLType
              org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.TypeReference

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class TypeReference
extends XMLType

Package private class to handles type references.

Version:

$Revision:

Author:

Arnaud Berry

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.XMLType

NULL_ARGUMENT

Fields inherited from class org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.Structure

ANNOTATION, ANYTYPE, APPINFO, ATTRIBUTE, ATTRIBUTE_GROUP, COMPLEX_CONTENT, COMPLEX_TYPE, DOCUMENTATION, ELEMENT, FACET, GROUP, IDENTITY_FIELD, IDENTITY_SELECTOR, KEY, KEYREF, LIST, MODELGROUP, MODELGROUP_REF, REDEFINE, SCHEMA, SIMPLE_CONTENT, SIMPLE_TYPE, UNION, UNIQUE, UNKNOWN, WILDCARD

Constructor Summary

TypeReference()

Method Summary

short	getStructureType() Returns Structure.UNKNOWN (This class should not be seen outside ElementDecl anyway)
protected void	setParent(Structure parent) Sets the parent for this Schema type
void	validate() Checks the validity of this type defintion.

Methods inherited from class org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.XMLType

getBaseType, getBaseTypeName, getDerivationMethod, getId, getName, getSchema, isAnyType, isComplexType, isSimpleType, setBaseType, setDerivationMethod, setId, setName, setSchema

Methods inherited from class org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.Annotated

addAnnotation, getAnnotations, removeAnnotation

Methods inherited from class org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.Structure

isValid

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TypeReference

public TypeReference()

Method Detail

setParent

protected void setParent(Structure parent)

Sets the parent for this Schema type

Specified by:

setParent in class XMLType

Parameters:

parent - the parent Structure for SchemaType

getStructureType

public short getStructureType()

Returns Structure.UNKNOWN (This class should not be seen outside ElementDecl anyway)

Specified by:

getStructureType in class Structure

Returns:

the type of this Schema Structure.

validate

public void validate()
              throws ValidationException

Checks the validity of this type defintion.

Specified by:

validate in class Structure

Throws:

ValidationException - when this type definition is invalid.