com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api
Interface HTMLComponent

All Superinterfaces:

ContentComponent, WCMApiObject

public interface HTMLComponent
extends ContentComponent

Represents a HTML component.

A HTMLComponent is a ContentComponent and cannot be stored as a separate entity in the repository.

A HTMLComponent can contain HTML. This interface provides methods to retrieve and set the HTML contained within this component.

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

See Also:

ContentComponent

Method Summary

DocumentType<? extends HTMLComponent>	getDocumentType() Returns the DocumentType of the ContentComponent.
java.lang.String	getHTML() Returns the HTML contained in this component as a String.
void	setHTML(java.lang.String html) Sets the HTML contained in this HTMLComponent.
void	setHTML(java.lang.String html, EmbeddedImageMap images) Deprecated. This method is deprecated from version 6.0. Use setHTML(String) instead.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.workplace.wcm.api.ContentComponent

getContainer, getName

Method Detail

getDocumentType

DocumentType<? extends HTMLComponent> getDocumentType()

Description copied from interface: ContentComponent

Returns the DocumentType of the ContentComponent.

Specified by:

getDocumentType in interface ContentComponent

Returns:

the type

See Also:

ContentComponent.getDocumentType()

getHTML

java.lang.String getHTML()

Returns the HTML contained in this component as a String.

Returns an empty String if the HTML could not be retrieved.

Returns:

the HTML

setHTML

void setHTML(java.lang.String html)
             throws OperationFailedException

Sets the HTML contained in this HTMLComponent.

Note. This method replaces any existing HTML in this component. It does not append to existing HTML.

Parameters:

html - the HTML

Throws:

OperationFailedException - if the string argument is null or the HTML could not be set

setHTML

void setHTML(java.lang.String html,
             EmbeddedImageMap images)
             throws OperationFailedException

Deprecated. This method is deprecated from version 6.0. Use setHTML(String) instead.

Sets the HTML contained in this HTMLComponent from the specified html argument that contains embedded images. The URL from the src attribute of the img tag must have a corresponding entry in an EmbeddedImageMap object that you add via the addImage method.

A WCM resource is created for the image when you save the workspace The src attribute in the img tag will be replaced by a WCM resource's url. If the same URL appears in the HTML more than once, the same WCM resource will be used.

Note. This method replaces any existing HTML in this component. It does not append to existing HTML. Existing images will be removed, new images will be added.

Example code:

  File file = new File("C:/example/image.jpg");
  EmbeddedImageMap embeddedImage = new EmbeddedImageMap();
  embeddedImage.addImage("c:/example/image.jpg", file);

  // Set HTML
  htmlComponent.setHTML(html, embeddedImage);
 

Parameters:

html - the HTML

images - a map of URLs to images

Throws:

OperationFailedException - if the string argument is null or the HTML could not be set