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Interface IDescriptor

All Known Subinterfaces:

IComponent, IConnection, IContainer, IContainerDefinitionField, IEvent, IEventSource, IField, ISystemEvent, ISystemEventSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractComponent, AbstractContainer, AbstractContainerFieldEvent, AbstractDynamicContainer, AbstractEvent, AbstractEventProcessingContainer, AbstractField, AbstractSocketChannelConnection, AbstractSystemEvent, ActiveAsymmetricEventProcessor, AsymmetricEventProcessor, AsymmetricEventProcessor.Result, BasicContainer, BooleanField, ChannelDestroyedEvent, ChannelReadyEvent, ConnectionAvailableEvent, ConnectionDestroyedEvent, ContainerCreatedEvent, ContainerDefinitionField, ContainerDestroyedEvent, ContainerFieldAddedEvent, ContainerFieldRemovedEvent, ContainerStateChangeEvent, ContextDiscoveredEvent, ContextNotAvailableEvent, DescriptorField, DoubleField, EventSource, EventSourceNotObservedEvent, EventSourceObservedEvent, FloatField, ImageEvent, IntegerField, LongField, MessageConsumedEvent, MessageEvent, Record, RemoteContainerCreatedEvent, RemoteContainerDestroyedEvent, RpcInvokeEvent, RxEvent, SendRpcEvent, StringField, SubscribeEvent, SystemEventSource, TcpConnection, TxEvent, UnsubscribeEvent

public interface IDescriptor

Provides complimentary operations to the Object.toString() method. These provide greater and lesser detail.

Author:

Ramon Servadei

Method Summary

String	toDetailedString() Provides a formatted string describing this object in detail.
String	toIdentityString() Get a string that provides the identification for this object.

Method Detail

toIdentityString

String toIdentityString()

Get a string that provides the identification for this object. This should have no more detail than the Object.toString() method.

Returns:

a string that provides the identification for this object

toDetailedString

String toDetailedString()

Provides a formatted string describing this object in detail. This has the same or more information than the standard Object.toString() method.

Returns:

a formatted string describing this object in detail