Hi Jochen,
first of all nice to meet you :) There are not differences since mine
is an extension that uses annotations to build the Digester, I
proposed the sandbox because is not complete, once terminated I'll
propose to merge the sanbox code in the proper one.
Have a nice day, best regards,
Simo
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jochen Wiedmann
<jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the difference between this and the digester? Why is it a new
> project and can't it be integrated into the existing?
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Simone Tripodi <simone.trip...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi all guys
>> As a new ASF committer, I'm setting up a new Commons Sandbox, called
>> "@Digester"
>>
>> @Digester
>>
>> The Apache commons-digester[1] is a great, light and fast XML parser;
>> it works with the SAX APIs and provides a serie of facilities to map
>> XML to POJOs.
>> It's configurable in the following ways:
>> * instancing and registering digester's rules into the digester;
>> * using the shorthand registration methods
>> * XML digester rules.
>>
>> Even if these methods are excellent, they are limited - if Java
>> objects are due to be changed quickly, all previous methods need to be
>> extended/modified.
>>
>> Inspired by the basic idea behind the JPA, JAXB's specifications, the
>> digester-annotations package would add some facilities to configure
>> the commons-digester using the Java5 language metadata annotations
>> support, it means creating the digester ruleset introspecting the
>> target POJOs, using a provided set of annotations. Using the annotated
>> Java object it's possible to create, in runtime the digester parser,
>> avoiding manual updates.
>>
>> I mean, for example, given the following XML snippet
>>
>> <web-app>
>> [...]
>> <servlet>
>> <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
>> <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
>> <init-param>
>> <param-name>application</param-name>
>>
>> <param-value>org.apache.struts.example.ApplicationResources</param-value>
>> </init-param>
>> <init-param>
>> <param-name>config</param-name>
>> <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
>> </init-param>
>> </servlet>
>> [...]
>> </web-app>
>>
>> It could be mapped as
>>
>> @ObjectCreate("web-app/servlet")
>> public final class ServletBean {
>>
>> @BeanPropertySetter("web-app/servlet/servlet-name")
>> private String servletName;
>>
>> @BeanPropertySetter("web-app/servlet/servlet-class")
>> private String servletClass;
>>
>> private final Map<String, String> initParams = new HashMap<String,
>> String>();
>>
>> public String getServletName() {
>> return this.servletName;
>> }
>>
>> public void setServletName(String servletName) {
>> this.servletName = servletName;
>> }
>>
>> public String getServletClass() {
>> return this.servletClass;
>> }
>>
>> public void setServletClass(String servletClass) {
>> this.servletClass = servletClass;
>> }
>>
>> @CallMethod("web-app/servlet/init-param")
>> public void
>> addInitParam(@CallParam("web-app/servlet/init-param/param-name")
>> String name,
>> @CallParam("web-app/servlet/init-param/param-value") String value)
>> {
>> this.initParams.put(name, value);
>> }
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> }
>>
>> and a special DigesterLoader is able to create Digester rules simply
>> by analizing the ServletBean class:
>>
>> Digester digester = DigesterLoader.createDigester(ServletBean.class);
>>
>> Of course, this approach has limitations too - i.e. it doesn't work
>> with 3rd part developed objects - but the combined use of the
>> different approaches should reduce the manually produced code.
>>
>> Current status of code:
>> I've already done almoust the 80% of code on google-code[2] licensed
>> under ASF2 license and also submitted a deprecated patch[3] on
>> commons-digester Jira: I would like to remove the
>> project on google-code and complete the work in
>> the sandbox, then re-propose to commons-digester community the new
>> feature.
>>
>> I really hope you'll find this new way of parsing XML interesting like I do
>> :P
>> Thanks in advance, best regards!!!
>> Simone Tripodi
>>
>> [1] http://commons.apache.org/digester/
>> [2] http://code.google.com/p/digester-annotations/source/browse/
>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIGESTER-135
>>
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