On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 08:23 PM, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
... >> Yup. This works fine. Digester is a great tool! One thing I'm looking >> at >> is how to combine it with a set of regular expression rules for the >> elements and attributes. Something like: >> >> <command id="123"> >> <user username="stefan"/> >> </command> >> >> With a property list: >> >> command.id=/^\d+$/ >> user.username=/^[a-z0-9]+$/ >> >> And make this part of the validation process. I'm interested in your >> thoughts about this. Is this something to add to the Digester core code >> or something that I should move to my own classes? >> > > Do you mean that you want to ensure that the attributes match those > patterns? Personally, I think that's a little out of scope for > Digester, > although you could probably do it by implementing your own matching > algorithm in an org.apache.commons.digester.Rules implementation (either > don't select the rules on mismatched patterns, or throw an exception or > something). Another alternative would be to throw an exception in the > property setter of the beans being created. Hmm. I had not thought about the property setter. My problem is that I need to give feedback to the user about where exactly in the XML document the wrong input was given. Preferably with a line number. Is there a way to get that information from the parser, or is all that logic buried deep in the Digester class? Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
