org.netbeans.api.templates

Interface CreateFromTemplateAttributes

public interface CreateFromTemplateAttributes

This is an interface for smart templating. Implementations of this class can be registered in the global Lookup and allows anyone provide additional parameters to each CreateFromTemplateHandlers when a template is instantiating.

Implementations are called in the order of appearance in Lookup. The positions less than 0 are reserved for the platform. Implementations called later can see and override values defined by earlier CreateFromTemplateAttributes.

Read more in the howto document.

This interface supersedes CreateFromTemplateAttributesProvider in openide.loaders module.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Map<String,?>	attributesFor(CreateDescriptor desc) Called when a template is about to be instantiated to provide additional values to the CreateFromTemplateHandler that will handle the template instantiation.

Method Detail

attributesFor

Map<String,?> attributesFor(CreateDescriptor desc)

Called when a template is about to be instantiated to provide additional values to the CreateFromTemplateHandler that will handle the template instantiation.

If the returned Map defines the same value as some CreateFromTemplateAttributes registered earlier, the Map's value takes precedence. Parameters supplied by the FileBuilder cannot be overriden.

Parameters:

desc - the creation request

Returns:

map of named objects, or null