On Friday, November 2, 2001, at 09:48 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
> On 11/2/01 3:44 PM, "Scott Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
>> That's Castor all right. I suppose we could start down that road, but I'
>> m
>> not sure why we would want to re-invent the wheel, since Castor is even
>> 2
>> way.
>
> I decided 6 months ago that I was going to use digester for everything
> XML.
> I looked at Castor and the Digester and Castor seemed rather complex. I
> also
> will always favour an apache product, and it seems that robert has a rule
> that will do what I need. To boot, Craig is meticulous with the code that
> he
> releases and is highly responsive to requests for change so I'm not really
> interested in looking at Castor anymore.
jason
you might want to give this a spin.
(i'll come back later with a better version and a test case later)
you'll need to use the ExtendedBaseRules, and so you'll need something like
digester.setRules(new ExtendedBaseRules);
you need to use a child match rule something like
digester.addRule("alpha/?", new BeanPropertySetterRule(digester));
this should set properties with names matching the names of child elements
of <alpha> with the body text of those elements.
eg.
<alpha>
...
<beta>Text</beta>
...
</alpha>
will set property beta with 'Text' on the top object on the stack (which
should be alpha).
in other words, what you wanted.
and without changing digester :)
- robert
BeanPropertySetterRule.java
BeanPropertySetterRule.java
