Package org.web3d.vrml.scripting.ecmascript.builtin

Interface FieldExtras

public interface FieldExtras

Factory abstract interface for generating field objects from a given node.

The idea of this factory is to break a circular compile dependency between SF/MFNode and all the field classes.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Justin Couch

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
FieldFactory	getFieldFactory()	Locate the field factory appropriate to this node and context information.
VRMLNodeType[]	parseVrmlString(String vrmlString)	Create a collection of VRML Objects from a string.

Method Details

parseVrmlString

VRMLNodeType[] parseVrmlString(String vrmlString)
                        throws VRMLException,
VRMLParseException

Create a collection of VRML Objects from a string. Used by the SFNode constructor, so we should only ever have one object returned, but an array is returned just in case.

Parameters:

vrmlString - The string containing VRML statements

Returns:

A scene containing all the information

Throws:

VRMLException

VRMLParseException

getFieldFactory

FieldFactory getFieldFactory()

Locate the field factory appropriate to this node and context information. Used so that the field factory can generate the nodes within the correct execution space etc.

Returns:

The local field factory instance in use