hi martin
On Sunday, March 3, 2002, at 07:41 AM, Martin Cooper wrote:
> I need to be able to specify the class to be instantiated for an element
> from an attribute on its parent element. For example, I need to have
> Digester handle the following:
>
> <action-mappings type="com.foo.bar.MyClass">
> <action ... />
> <action ... />
> </action-mappings>
>
> Here, each ObjectCreate for an <action> element needs to create an object
> of
> the class specified by the 'type' attribute of the <action-mappings>
> element. After the object has been created, its own attributes would be
> populated using addSetProperties(). There is no object created for the
> <action-mappings> element.
>
> I have a feeling that this is going to involve a FactoryCreateRule of some
> sort. However, I haven't quite got my head around this type of rule yet to
> figure this out.
>
> Ideas, anyone?
there are at least two ways to be this kind of thing.
probably the easiest is something like
digester.addFactoryCreate("root/action", DefaultObject.class, "type")
(an instance of class DefualtObject will be created whenever the attribute
isn't present).
- robert
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