1 /* 2 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 package org.apache.commons.betwixt.expression; 17 18 /** <p><code>Updater</code> acts like an lvalue which updates the current 19 * context bean from some text from an XML attribute or element.</p> 20 * 21 * @author <a HREF="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a> 22 * @version $Revision: 1.6 $ 23 */ 24 public interface Updater { 25 26 /** Updates the current bean context with a new String value. 27 * This is typically used when parsing XML and updating a bean value 28 * from XML 29 * 30 * @param context update the bean in this <code>Context</code> 31 * @param newValue set value to this <code>Object</code> 32 */ 33 public void update(Context context, Object newValue); 34 } 35