vooga.engine.resource.modules
Class ResourceModule

java.lang.Object
  vooga.engine.resource.modules.ResourceModule

Direct Known Subclasses:

DoubleModule, ImageModule, IntegerModule, SoundModule, StringModule

public abstract class ResourceModule
extends java.lang.Object

ResourceModules specify how to parse different types of resources from an XML file, store the resources, and retrieve the resources using a key. The infrastructure for using ResourceModules are in place, but the problem of returning resources of different classes using some common method in the Resources class is unsolved.

Constructor Summary

ResourceModule()

Method Summary

abstract void	clearElements() Clears the current resource map.
java.lang.String	getDefaultPath()
Game	getGame()
abstract void	loadElements(java.util.Collection<org.w3c.dom.Element> elements) Adds Elements to the resource map.
void	setDefaultPath(java.lang.String defaultFilePath)
void	setGame(Game game)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ResourceModule

public ResourceModule()

Method Detail

setGame

public void setGame(Game game)

getGame

public Game getGame()

setDefaultPath

public void setDefaultPath(java.lang.String defaultFilePath)

getDefaultPath

public java.lang.String getDefaultPath()

loadElements

public abstract void loadElements(java.util.Collection<org.w3c.dom.Element> elements)

Adds Elements to the resource map. Presumably, these elements are part of a Document from parsing an XML file using the Document Object Model

Parameters:

elements - Elements of the parsed XML document to be added

clearElements

public abstract void clearElements()

Clears the current resource map. Resource maps should be cleared when they are full of currently unneeded resources and the game is starting to use too much memory.