done, see r1329308 - happy hacking! -Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Simone Tripodi <simonetrip...@apache.org> wrote: > OK, thanks a lot! will do it in a short while, just the time to > ASF-ize the codebase :P > best, > -Simo > > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ > http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ > http://twitter.com/simonetripodi > http://www.99soft.org/ > > > 2012/4/23 Francesco Chicchiriccò <ilgro...@apache.org>: >> On 23/04/2012 16:35, Simone Tripodi wrote: >>> Hi all guys, >>> >>> One thing I've always found a little "annoying" - "boring" is maybe >>> the more appropriate therm - of SAX APIs is that, when crating even >>> simple XML snippets via ContentHandler APIs, the following boilerplate >>> code has to be written: >>> >>> +--------+ >>> ContentHandler handler = ... ; >>> contentHandler.startDocument(); >>> contentHandler.startElement( "", "project", "project", new AttributesImpl() >>> ); >>> contentHandler.startElement( "", "modelVersion", "modelVersion", new >>> AttributesImpl() ); >>> >>> String modelVersion = "4.0.0"; >>> contentHandler.characters( modelVersion.toCharArray(), 0, >>> modelVersion.length() ); >>> >>> contentHandler.endElement( "", "modelVersion", "modelVersion" ); >>> contentHandler.endElement( "", "project", "project", new AttributesImpl() ); >>> contentHandler.endDocument(); >>> +--------+ >>> >>> I think you would agree with me that to obtain the following snippet >>> >>> +--------+ >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >>> <project> >>> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> >>> </project> >>> +--------+ >>> >>> that code is maybe an overkill :P >>> >>> So, at company I developed a small SAX wrapper that would help on >>> transforming the previous code in the following: >>> >>> +--------+ >>> ContentHandler handler = ... ; >>> SAXEventsBuilder.newDocument( transformerHandler ) >>> .start( "project" ) >>> .start( "modelVersion" ).body( "4.0.0" ).end() >>> .end() >>> .endDocument(); >>> +--------+ >>> >>> isn't more "sexy"? It still supports elements that require >>> namespaces/attributes but reduces the lines of code for hardcoded XML >>> documents - especially when closing elements. >>> >>> It also allows users to add manually-generated elements in an existing >>> ContentHandler: >>> +--------+ >>> ContentHandler handler = ... ; >>> SAXEventsBuilder.wrap( transformerHandler ) >>> .start( "modelVersion" ).body( "4.0.0" ).end() >>> .start( "groupId" ).body( "org.apache.cocoon.sax" ).end() >>> .start( "artifactId" ).body( "cocoon-sax" ).end() >>> .start( "version" ).body( "3.0.0-beta-1" ).end() >>> +--------+ >>> >>> without starting/closing the document. >>> >>> If you like it, I would be pleased to commit it in the Cocoon repo - >>> as a side question: which component that would fill? >> >> Hi Simone, >> looks fine and helpful to me, +1 >> >> I'd put it in cocoon-sax, under org.apache.cocoon.sax.util package. >> >> Cheers. >> >> -- >> Francesco Chicchiriccò >> >> Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member >> http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ >>
