Interface ErrorReporter

All Known Implementing Classes:
DisplayCanvas, MessagePopup

public interface ErrorReporter
To allow different styles of reporting errors, a Controller uses an ErrorReporter to report any errors that are thrown during its checkInput/compute cycle. The DisplayCanvas and MessagePopup classes implement this interface.
  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    void
    Clear the error reprort, if there is one.
    Get the error message that is currently being displayed, or return null if there is no error message.
    void
    setErrorMessage(Controller source, String message)
    Report the specifed message as an error.
  • Method Details

    • setErrorMessage

      void setErrorMessage(Controller source, String message)
      Report the specifed message as an error. If source is non-null, then it is the Controller that called this routine. In that case, if the error reporter is capable of clearing its own error condition, it should call source.errorCleared() when it does so.
      Parameters:
      source - Controller that called this method (if non-null).
      message - error message to report.
    • clearErrorMessage

      void clearErrorMessage()
      Clear the error reprort, if there is one.
    • getErrorMessage

      String getErrorMessage()
      Get the error message that is currently being displayed, or return null if there is no error message.