net.sf.mmm.client.ui.api.attribute

Interface AttributeReadEditable

All Known Subinterfaces:

AttributeWriteEditable, UiWidgetAbstractDataSet<ITEM>, UiWidgetAbstractDataTable<ROW>, UiWidgetAbstractListTable<ROW>, UiWidgetAbstractTree<NODE>, UiWidgetListTable<ROW>, UiWidgetOptionListTable<ROW>, UiWidgetTableColumn<ROW,CELL>, UiWidgetTree<NODE>, UiWidgetTreeTable<NODE>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractUiWidgetAbstractDataSet, AbstractUiWidgetAbstractDataTable, AbstractUiWidgetAbstractListTable, AbstractUiWidgetListTable, AbstractUiWidgetTableColumn, AbstractUiWidgetTree, UiWidgetCustomAbstractListTable, UiWidgetCustomListTable, UiWidgetListTableGwt, UiWidgetTableColumnImpl, UiWidgetTreeGwt, UiWidgetTreeTestImpl

public interface AttributeReadEditable

This interface gives read access to the editable attribute of an object.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isEditable() This method gets the editable status of this object.

Method Detail

isEditable

boolean isEditable()

This method gets the editable status of this object. Editable means that the end-user can edit the data of the object if also in edit mode (e.g. a data table that allows inline editing). If the editable feature is turned off, the user can no longer edit the data.
This is closely related to AttributeReadEnabled.isEnabled(). However turning off the editable-flag is weaker than disabling a UI object. An enabled but NOT editable object may still allow user-interaction (e.g. a combobox that still allows selection out of a predefined list but no editing of the text). Further the visualization is softer (no grey out of the entire object).
ATTENTION:
There may be other aspects that have influence if the user can currently edit this object such as the mode or enabled flag. This method only returns the editable flag (as set via AttributeWriteEditable.setEditable(boolean)) and therefore only tells if the object is potentially editable.

Returns:

true if this object is editable, false otherwise.