net.sourceforge.sqlunit
Interface IHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArgHandler, BatchCallHandler, BatchResultHandler, BatchSqlHandler, BatchTestHandler, CallHandler, CategoryHandler, ClassifiersHandler, ColHandler, ConnectionHandler, ConstructorArgsHandler, DiffHandler, DynamicSqlHandler, EchoHandler, ExceptionHandler, FieldHandler, ForeachHandler, FuncDefHandler, FuncHandler, IncludeHandler, JndiHandler, MatchHandler, MethodArgsHandler, MethodInvokerHandler, OutParamHandler, ParamHandler, ParamSetHandler, PrepareHandler, ResultHandler, ResultSetHandler, RowHandler, SetHandler, SetupHandler, SeverityHandler, SkipHandler, SqlHandler, StructHandler, SubDefHandler, SubHandler, SubParamHandler, TeardownHandler, TestHandler, TypeDefHandler, TypeMapHandler

public interface IHandler

The IHandler interface represents a SQLUnit tag handler.

Version:

$Revision: 1.11 $

Author:

Sujit Pal (spal@users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

process(org.jdom.Element el) The process object processes the JDOM Element representing a database call of some kind, applies it to the JDBC Connection object and returns a resultant Object.

Method Detail

process

java.lang.Object process(org.jdom.Element el)
                         throws java.lang.Exception

The process object processes the JDOM Element representing a database call of some kind, applies it to the JDBC Connection object and returns a resultant Object. The client instantiating the IHandler object using the HandlerFactory is responsible for casting it to the appropriate Handler class.

Parameters:

el - The JDOM Element representing the database call.

Returns:

an Object representing the results of the processing.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - if something went wrong with the process call.