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Using a reusable code approach to HTML select option lists: part II (continued)

Listing 4 contains the associated abstract base class with the new functionality.

package step.two;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.apache.struts.util.LabelValueBean;

/**
* This absract class implements the required methods for an "Option
* List" source, which returns the name/value pairs for the options
* related to an HTML "select" tag.
*
* This class must be extended by a concrete subclass which must
* implement the specified abstract method <code>loadOptions()</code>
* to load the list of available options from the implementation-specific
* data source.
*/
public abstract class OptionListSourceBase implements OptionListSource {
private ArrayList options = null;
private ArrayList optionsPlusBlank = null;

/**
* Returns an <code>ArrayList</code> of <code>LabelValueBean</code>
* objects defining the available options.
*
* This method should return the same results as using the method
* <code>getOptions(true)</code>.
*
* @return an <code>ArrayList</code> of <code>LabelValueBean</code>
* objects defining the available options
*/
public ArrayList getOptions() {
return getOptions(true);
}

/**
* Returns an <code>ArrayList</code> of <code>LabelValueBean</code>
* objects defining the available options.
*
* @param required a boolean indicating whether or not input is
* required for this field. Setting this indicator to false will
* cause the generation of an additional option for no selection.
* @return an <code>ArrayList</code> of <code>LabelValueBean</code>
* objects defining the available options
*/
public ArrayList getOptions(boolean required) {
if (options == null) {
loadOptionsArrays();
}

if (required) {
return options;
} else {
return optionsPlusBlank;
}
}

/**
* Obtains the available options from the implementation-specific
* load method.
*/
protected void loadOptionsArrays() {
loadOptions();

if (options == null) {
options = new ArrayList();
System.out.println(this.getClass().getName() + ".loadOptions() produced no result.");
}

optionsPlusBlank = new ArrayList();
LabelValueBean blankOption = new LabelValueBean("-- No Selection --", "");
optionsPlusBlank.add(blankOption);
optionsPlusBlank.add(options);
}

/**
* Loads the list of available options from the implementation-specific
* data source.
*/
protected abstract void loadOptions();

/**
* Sets the <code>ArrayList</code> of <code>LabelValueBean</code>
* objects defining the available options.
*
* @param options the <code>ArrayList</code> of <code>LabelValueBean</code>
* objects defining the available options
*/
protected void setOptions(ArrayList options) {
this.options = options;
}
}



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