1 /* ================================================================
2 * Cewolf : Chart enabling Web Objects Framework
3 * ================================================================
5 * Project Info: http://cewolf.sourceforge.net
6 * Project Lead: Guido Laures (guido@laures.de);
8 * (C) Copyright 2002, by Guido Laures
10 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
11 * of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
12 * either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
14 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
15 * without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
16 * See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
18 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this
19 * library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
20 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
23 package de.laures.cewolf;
28 * Postprocesses a generated chart instance. Objects of this class can be used to
29 * customize a generated and afterwards rendered chart instance additionally.
30 * To provide a postprocessor the <chartpostprocessor> tag is used.
31 * There can be an unlimited number of postprocessors registered.
32 * @see de.laures.cewolf.taglib.tags.ChartPostProcessorTag
33 * @author Guido Laures
35 public interface ChartPostProcessor {
38 * Processes a generated chart. This method is called by the ChartProducer
39 * after a chart instance is generated and before it is rendered (if so).
40 * The ChartProducer is responsible for post processing a chart dependant
41 * on and only on the provided parameters. This means that the same parameters
42 * should result in the same post processings.
43 * @param chart the chart instnce. Concrete class depends on the rendering
44 * implementation. Currently a org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart is passed.
45 * @param params paramters passed to the postprocessor. These are defined in the JSP
46 * @see de.laures.cewolf.taglib.tags.ChartPostProcessorTag
48 void processChart(Object chart, Map params);