Thanks for the answer, I'll dig into the details myself now.
bye
Alessio Pace.
On 1/3/06, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 18:27 +0100, Alessio Pace wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > imagine I have a class with some simple set methods (setField(String) ,
> > setOtherField(int) ) and then a more "complicated" setter method like
> this:
> >
> > public void setStringArray(String[] stringArray){
> > this.stringArray = stringArray;
> > }
> >
> >
> > Now imagine I would like to read my class from XML using digester, and
> the
> > format is like:
> >
> > <myclass>
> > <field>string</field>
> > <otherField>100</otherField>
> > <stringArray>A, B, C</stringArray>
> > </myclass>
> >
> > Is there any default syntactic sugar that makes me accomplish this task
> > without having to write a custom converter or rule (sorry if I don't use
> the
> > correct Digester terms, I am almost a newbie) to make digester call
> > setStringArray( {"A", "B", "C"} ) ??
> >
> > Using:
> > digester.addBeanPropertySetter("root/someother/stuff/class/?");
> >
> > I have succesfully solved the issue about setField(String) and
> > setOtherField(int), but I am not able to get the array setter to be
> properly
> > called.
> >
> > If the design of the approach is inherently ugly, suggestions are
> welcome
> > for an alternative XML format (and relative Digester rule) to store an
> and
> > retrieve an array of strings :)
>
> You could certainly solve this with a custom Rule class. Don't be
> concerned about this, it's perfectly normal and not particularly
> difficult. Digbester comes with a useful set of prebuilt rules, but that
> doesn't mean they can solve every problem. In the "body" method of a
> custom Rule, just split the body string into an array, then retrieve the
> top object on the digester stack, cast it to a MyClass instance and
> invoke the setStringArray method passing your data.
>
> You might also be able to solve this by registering a custom
> String->StringArray converter with the beanutils library. Digester
> always uses the ConvertUtils class within that library to convert the
> strings it gets from the xml file into the appropriate type for the
> parameter(s) of the method it is invoking.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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