On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 03:51, Rob Cash wrote:
> "Bill Keese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > >I'm trying to figure out how I can create an [child] object using a parent
> attribute
> > >value as the className for the child. Here's a sample XML snipet:
> > >
> > ><parent childClass="mypackage.childClass">
> > > <child attribute1="value1" attribute2="value2"/>
> > > <child attribute1="value3" attribute2="value4"/>
> > ></parent>
> > >
> > I thought that typically ObjectCreationFactory only looks at the
> > attributes of the element currently being processed, but I suppose you
> > could design one that looked at the value of the top element on the
> > stack. Alternately you could pipe your XML through XSLT to transform it
> > into something more digester-friendly.
>
> Yeah, I supposed the alternative would be something like this:
>
> <parent>
> <child className="mypackage.childClass" attribute1="value1"
> attribute2="value2"/>
> <child className="mypackage.childClass" attribute1="value3"
> attribute2="value4"/>
> </parent>
>
> Then i could use the className attribute of the current object on the stack to
> create each child object. I would still have to create my own
> ObjectCreationFactory, though, to use the attribute className as the name of the
> class to use when instantiating the object, right? I didn't see a
> Digester.addObjectCreate() method that would work.
The latter syntax is certainly more "normal" for digester. If you use
this syntax then you can use the FactoryCreateRule with an
attribute-name:
Class defaultChildClass = StandardChild.class;
digester.addFactoryCreate(
"parent/child", defaultChildClass, "className");
If your child objects require significant configuration data, then you
may also wish to check out the "plugins" module currently in CVS. It's
very stable (we're very close to a new release of Digester). If,
however, your child objects only need a couple of attributes, as per
your example, then using the "plugins" facility is probably "overkill".
Regards,
Simon
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