mnereson schrieb:
Anyone know how to read XML content to java.util.Properties?
Input would be something like
<root>
<properties>
<propertynameA>value</propertynameA>
<propertynameB>value</propertynameB>
<propertynameC>value</propertynameC>
<properties>
</root>
I need to have a Properties entity with three keys (propertynameA,
propertynameB, propertynameC) and three values (value, value value)
I can figure out as much as
final Digester digester = new Digester();
digester.addObjectCreate("root/properties", Properties.class);
... << what goes here to add keys and set values?
final StringReader reader = new StringReader(xml);
Properties properties = (Properties) digester.parse(reader);
But I am not sure how to grab arbitrary elements under "root/properties" and
assign them as a Property key.
Digester isn't really designed to process elements whose names are not
fixed. The whole concept of "rules" matching elements really only works
when the elements have names that are always the same.
However there are a couple of cases where non-constant names can be
supported, and I think your example xml above can be processed. I suggest:
* first configure the digester to use the ExtendedBaseRules class as its
"rules engine"
* then you can use the pattern "root/properties/*" to execute your own
custom Rule class
* your custom rule will do its work in the method
public void body(namespace, name, text)
so the name of the element is easily available.
That's not too complicated, but not entirely trivial either. If your
input really is as simple as the example above then maybe you should
simply parse the input using the SAX api directly, and not bother with
using Digester.
Regards,
Simon
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