Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 6

javax.swing.text
Class DocumentFilter.FilterBypass

java.lang.Object
  extended by javax.swing.text.DocumentFilter.FilterBypass
Enclosing class:
DocumentFilter

public abstract static class DocumentFilter.FilterBypass
extends Object

Used as a way to circumvent calling back into the Document to change it. Document implementations that wish to support a DocumentFilter must provide an implementation that will not callback into the DocumentFilter when the following methods are invoked from the DocumentFilter.

Since:
1.4

Constructor Summary
DocumentFilter.FilterBypass()
           
 
Method Summary
abstract  Document getDocument()
          Returns the Document the mutation is occuring on.
abstract  void insertString(int offset, String string, AttributeSet attr)
          Inserts the specified text, bypassing the DocumentFilter.
abstract  void remove(int offset, int length)
          Removes the specified region of text, bypassing the DocumentFilter.
abstract  void replace(int offset, int length, String string, AttributeSet attrs)
          Deletes the region of text from offset to offset + length, and replaces it with text.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

DocumentFilter.FilterBypass

public DocumentFilter.FilterBypass()
Method Detail

getDocument

public abstract Document getDocument()
Returns the Document the mutation is occuring on.

Returns:
Document that remove/insertString will operate on

remove

public abstract void remove(int offset,
                            int length)
                     throws BadLocationException
Removes the specified region of text, bypassing the DocumentFilter.

Parameters:
offset - the offset from the beginning >= 0
length - the number of characters to remove >= 0
Throws:
BadLocationException - some portion of the removal range was not a valid part of the document. The location in the exception is the first bad position encountered.

insertString

public abstract void insertString(int offset,
                                  String string,
                                  AttributeSet attr)
                           throws BadLocationException
Inserts the specified text, bypassing the DocumentFilter.

Parameters:
offset - the offset into the document to insert the content >= 0. All positions that track change at or after the given location will move.
string - the string to insert
attr - the attributes to associate with the inserted content. This may be null if there are no attributes.
Throws:
BadLocationException - the given insert position is not a valid position within the document

replace

public abstract void replace(int offset,
                             int length,
                             String string,
                             AttributeSet attrs)
                      throws BadLocationException
Deletes the region of text from offset to offset + length, and replaces it with text.

Parameters:
offset - Location in Document
length - Length of text to delete
string - Text to insert, null indicates no text to insert
attrs - AttributeSet indicating attributes of inserted text, null is legal.
Throws:
BadLocationException - the given insert is not a valid position within the document

Java™ Platform
Standard Ed. 6

Submit a bug or feature
For further API reference and developer documentation, see Java SE Developer Documentation. That documentation contains more detailed, developer-targeted descriptions, with conceptual overviews, definitions of terms, workarounds, and working code examples.

Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Also see the documentation redistribution policy.