com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api
Interface ContentComponent

All Superinterfaces:

WCMApiObject

All Known Subinterfaces:

DateComponent, DocumentManagerComponent, FileComponent, HTMLComponent, ImageComponent, JSPComponent, LinkComponent, NumericComponent, OptionSelectionComponent, ReferenceComponent, RichTextComponent, ShortTextComponent, TargetableContentComponent, TextComponent, UserSelectionComponent

public interface ContentComponent
extends WCMApiObject

The root interface in the Content Component hierarchy. ContentComponent is an interface to mark a component that can be held within a ContentComponentContainer.

A ContentComponent can exist only on Content, Site or SiteArea objects. A ContentComponent must live in a ContentComponentContainer - it cannot exist in the the repository as a separate object.

A content component has a one-to-one relationship with a ContentComponentContainer object, and consequently, with an object that can implements a ContentComponentContainer. This is different to a LibraryComponent as a LibraryComponent may be reused by different objects in the repository.

note: since v6.0.0, a ContentComponent is referred to as an "Element" in the Authoring UI.

See Also:

LibraryComponent

Method Summary

ContentComponentContainer	getContainer() Returns the ContentComponentContainer object that contains this ContentComponent.
DocumentType<? extends ContentComponent>	getDocumentType() Returns the DocumentType of the ContentComponent.
java.lang.String	getName() Returns the name of this ContentComponent object.

Method Detail

getName

java.lang.String getName()

Returns the name of this ContentComponent object.

Specified by:

getName in interface WCMApiObject

Returns:

the component name

getDocumentType

DocumentType<? extends ContentComponent> getDocumentType()

Returns the DocumentType of the ContentComponent.

Returns:

the type

getContainer

ContentComponentContainer getContainer()

Returns the ContentComponentContainer object that contains this ContentComponent.

Returns:

the ContentComponentContainer of this object

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - if the ContentComponentContainer for this ContentComponent has not been set