Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to do a custom FieldHandler that can have some parameters.
In the on-going saga of my project, I have to apply some formatting rules to some of the outgoing XML. Specifically, for certain steps I need to have fixed-width content in the elements, and do one of the following: truncate to length pad right to length with 0 characters pad right to length with spaces pad left to length with 0 characters pad left to length with spaces I also have to do a FieldHandler to wrap all of the elements in CDATA[] tags. This lead me to wonder if it makes sense to use a FieldHandler for my output formatting as well. This lead me to actually read the docs at: http://www.castor.org/xml-fieldhandlers.html It looks like a custom FieldHandler is a good idea. The problem is that I have to specify the field width and maybe a few other details, otherwise I end up with classes like: PadRight20SpacesFieldHandler.java PadRight18SpacesFieldHandler.java PadRight18zerosFieldHandler.java And that is just silly :-). What's a good way to get the parameter in? If Castor doesn't have any support for something like this now, one thought is add some sort of custom formatting attribute on <field>, or possibly an element inside <field>. Or maybe use something like Java Message Format (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html) ...though I'm not certain it will support the sort of formatting I need. However, having a single string parameter that can use whatever formatting syntax the custom FieldHandler desires (java MessageFormat, sprintf, etc) might be a good middle ground. Steven J. Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please send an empty message to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------
