net.fortuna.ical4j.model.property

Class Categories

java.lang.Object

net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Content

net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Property

net.fortuna.ical4j.model.property.Categories

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class Categories
extends Property

$Id$ Created: [Apr 6, 2004] Defines a CATEGORIES iCalendar component property.

     4.8.1.2 Categories
     
        Property Name: CATEGORIES
     
        Purpose: This property defines the categories for a calendar
        component.
     
        Value Type: TEXT
     
        Property Parameters: Non-standard and language property parameters
        can be specified on this property.
     
        Conformance: The property can be specified within "VEVENT", "VTODO"
        or "VJOURNAL" calendar components.
     
        Description: This property is used to specify categories or subtypes
        of the calendar component. The categories are useful in searching for
        a calendar component of a particular type and category. Within the
        "VEVENT", "VTODO" or "VJOURNAL" calendar components, more than one
        category can be specified as a list of categories separated by the
        COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal 44).
     
        Format Definition: The property is defined by the following notation:
     
          categories = "CATEGORIES" catparam ":" text *("," text)
                       CRLF
     
          catparam   = *(
     
                     ; the following is optional,
                     ; but MUST NOT occur more than once
     
                     (";" languageparam ) /
     
                     ; the following is optional,
                     ; and MAY occur more than once
     
                     (";" xparam)
     
                     )
 

Author:

benf

See Also:

Serialized Form

Property Summary

Properties inherited from class net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Property

isCalendarProperty

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Property

ACTION, ATTACH, ATTENDEE, BUSYTYPE, CALSCALE, CATEGORIES, CLASS, COMMENT, COMPLETED, CONTACT, COUNTRY, CREATED, DESCRIPTION, DTEND, DTSTAMP, DTSTART, DUE, DURATION, EXDATE, EXPERIMENTAL_PREFIX, EXRULE, EXTENDED_ADDRESS, FREEBUSY, GEO, LAST_MODIFIED, LOCALITY, LOCATION, LOCATION_TYPE, METHOD, NAME, ORGANIZER, PERCENT_COMPLETE, POSTALCODE, PRIORITY, PRODID, RDATE, RECURRENCE_ID, REGION, RELATED_TO, REPEAT, REQUEST_STATUS, RESOURCES, RRULE, SEQUENCE, STATUS, STREET_ADDRESS, SUMMARY, TEL, TRANSP, TRIGGER, TZID, TZNAME, TZOFFSETFROM, TZOFFSETTO, TZURL, UID, URL, VERSION

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Categories() Default constructor.
Categories(ParameterList aList, java.lang.String aValue)
Categories(ParameterList aList, TextList cList)
Categories(java.lang.String aValue)
Categories(TextList cList)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
TextList	getCategories()
java.lang.String	getValue()
void	setValue(java.lang.String aValue) Sets the current value of the property.
void	validate() Perform validation on a property.

Methods inherited from class net.fortuna.ical4j.model.Property

copy, equals, getName, getParameter, getParameters, getParameters, hashCode, isCalendarProperty, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Categories

public Categories()

Default constructor.

Categories

public Categories(java.lang.String aValue)

Parameters:

aValue - a value string for this component

Categories

public Categories(ParameterList aList,
          java.lang.String aValue)

Parameters:

aList - a list of parameters for this component

aValue - a value string for this component

Categories

public Categories(TextList cList)

Parameters:

cList - a list of categories

Categories

public Categories(ParameterList aList,
          TextList cList)

Parameters:

aList - a list of parameters for this component

cList - a list of categories

Method Detail

setValue

public final void setValue(java.lang.String aValue)

Sets the current value of the property.

Specified by:

setValue in class Property

Parameters:

aValue - a string representation of the property value

validate

public final void validate()
                    throws ValidationException

Perform validation on a property.

Specified by:

validate in class Property

Throws:

ValidationException - where the property is not in a valid state

getCategories

public final TextList getCategories()

Returns:

Returns the categories.

getValue

public final java.lang.String getValue()

Specified by:

getValue in class Content

Returns:

the content value