net.wimpi.telnetd.io.terminal
Class TerminalManager

java.lang.Object
  net.wimpi.telnetd.io.terminal.TerminalManager

public class TerminalManager

extends java.lang.Object

Class that manages all available terminal implementations.
Configuration is stored in a properties file (normally Terminals.properties).

Version:

2.0 (13/03/2005)

Author:

Dieter Wimberger

Method Summary

static TerminalManager	createTerminalManager(java.util.Properties settings) Factory method for creating the Singleton instance of this class.
java.lang.String[]	getAvailableTerminals()
static TerminalManager	getReference() Accessor method for the Singleton instance of this class.
Terminal	getTerminal(java.lang.String key) Returns a reference to a terminal that has been set up, regarding to the key given as parameter.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getTerminal

public Terminal getTerminal(java.lang.String key)

Returns a reference to a terminal that has been set up, regarding to the key given as parameter.
If the key does not represent a terminal name or any alias for any terminal, then the returned terminal will be a default basic terminal (i.e. vt100 without color support).

Parameters:

key - String that represents a terminal name or an alias.

Returns:

Terminal instance or null if the key was invalid.

getAvailableTerminals

public java.lang.String[] getAvailableTerminals()

createTerminalManager

public static TerminalManager createTerminalManager(java.util.Properties settings)
                                             throws BootException

Factory method for creating the Singleton instance of this class.
Note that this factory method is called by the net.wimpi.telnetd.TelnetD class.

Parameters:

settings - Properties defining the terminals as described in the class documentation.

Returns:

TerminalManager Singleton instance.

Throws:

BootException

getReference

public static TerminalManager getReference()

Accessor method for the Singleton instance of this class.
Note that it returns null if the instance was not properly created beforehand.

Returns:

TerminalManager Singleton instance reference.