[Digester] NodeCreateRule

[Jaap van Hengstum]

I'm at a loss using NodeCreateRule. I have the following xml structure:

<init>
        <item class="nl.indicia.quokka.init.TestContextItem">
                <configuration-file>foo</configuration-file>
                <properties>
                        <TestString>xxxx</TestString>
                        <TestInt>1234</TestInt>
                </properties>
        </item>
</init>

I want to parse it with a digester. I also have the following class (TestContextItem 
inherits this class):

public abstract class ContextItem
{
        protected String configurationFile;
        protected Node propertiesRoot;
        
        // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
        public String getConfigurationFile()
        {
                return this.configurationFile;
        }
        
        public void setConfigurationFile(String configurationFile)
        {
                this.configurationFile = configurationFile;
        }
  
        public Node getNode()
        {
                return this.propertiesRoot;
        }
  
        public void setNode(Node node)
        {
            this.propertiesRoot = node;
        }

        // -------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
        public abstract void initialize() throws FrameworkException;
        public abstract void reinitialize() throws FrameworkException;
}

What I understand of the NodeCreateRule, it should allow me to consider everything 
between the <properties> tags as a xml node and pass this node to the instantiated 
ContextItem class using the setNode method on that class. But I can't figure out how 
to do that. 

I have the following digester configuration:

        ...
(1)     this.addObjectCreate("init/item", "class", ContextItem.class);
(2)     this.addSetNext("init/item", "addItem");
(3)     this.addCallMethod("init/item/configuration-file", "setConfigurationFile", 0);
(4)     this.addRule("init/item/properties", new NodeCreateRule());
        ...

How do I continue after the NodeCreateRule? That is, how do I pass the contents of the 
node on the object stack I  create in line (4) to the SetNode method on the 
TestContextItem instance created in line (1)??? 

(and if this is not possible using the standard digester rules, what new rule should I 
create?)

If someone could answer this, he or she would make me very happy :-)

Jaap.

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