After further testing, I have reduced the complexity of my 'Bean'. The
'Bean' is no longer a Collection<> and provides getThe* methods that do not
meet the Beans standard. Hence, JXPath must use an XBeanInfo and
DynamicHandler to perform sucessful traversal/evalution, and it does...
For the first time I can see DynamicHandler<init> being called. My
previous DynamicHandler that worked with a Collection class was never
initialized and thus proves JXPath was never using it.
The big question is, why? I know I can get around this by reworking my
datastructure so that it does not extend ArrayList<MyBean> () but I really
don't think I should have to do this.
I've read a few posts with the same problem now (some as far back as 2006).
Im yet to see a solution, it looks like everyone else just decides to 'give
up' which I'd rather not do, because if this works it's a great solution.
:)
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Andrew Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After a little more investigation, I have overriden every
> Collection/ArrayList method in the "PojoNode" class to see how/if JXPath
> calls ANY of the inherited super methods. It does not! If JXPath is not
> traversing my data structure in any way, then it's probably not even
> evaluating it. But Im not sure why this would be, or why under such
> circumstances a mis-configuration like this does not throw any exceptions.
> As I said, I think I have exhausted the online docs and I'm getting a
> little desperate (probably sound like it too). So any help would definitely
> be appreciated. :)
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to work out how I can add the following PojoNode to JXPath's
>> context for evaluation.
>>
>> public class PojoNode extends java.util.ArrayList<PojoNode> {
>> public PojoNode(Pojo pojo) {
>> this.pojo = pojo;
>> }
>> private Pojo pojo;
>> public Pojo getPojo() {
>> return pojo;
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> The PojoNode tree above is (definitely) populated... then I setup and ask
>> JXPath to evaluate an expression on it:
>>
>>
>> JXPathIntrospector.registerDynamicClass(PojoNode.class,PojoDynamicPropertyHandler.class);
>> JXPathContext jxPathContext = JXPathContext.newContext(rootPojoNode);
>> PojoNode result = (PojoNode)jxPathContext.getValue("/"); //this always
>> produces an empty result
>>
>>
>> What concerns me is not the code I have written but the code I have not.
>> I've got log statements in the PojoXInfoBean and PojoDynamicPropertyHandler
>> (see below) but none every fire (in particular "I have been asked to
>> look.." and "...w00t"). Consequently the PojoNode tree is not being
>> traversed correctly and thus fails. I suspect that because PojoNode
>> implements a Collection it's picked up buy another DynamicPropertyHandler.
>>
>> I feel like I have exhausted the javadocs and any help would be very very
>> much appreciated.
>>
>> Thank You.
>>
>>
>> ps if you wanted to see more code it is below....
>>
>> public class PojoNodeDynamicPropertyHandler implements
>> DynamicPropertyHandler {
>>
>> private final static Logger log =
>> Logger.getLogger(PojoNodeDynamicPropertyHandler.class);
>>
>> public Object getProperty(Object PojoNode, String name) {
>> log.debug("I have been asked to look for '"+name+"'");
>> Collection<PojoNode> hits = new ArrayList<PojoNode>();
>> for(PojoNode childPojoNode : (PojoNode) PojoNode){
>> if (childPojoNode.getPojo().getName().equals(name)){
>> hits.add(childPojoNode);
>> }
>> }
>>
>> log.debug("I have found '"+hits.size()+"' instances of '"+name+"'");
>> return hits;
>> }
>>
>> public String[] getPropertyNames(Object PojoNode) {
>> log.debug("JXPath has asked for this, w00t!");
>> HashSet<String> nameSet = new HashSet<String>();
>> nameSet.addAll(collectChildNames(PojoNode));
>> return (String[]) nameSet.toArray(new String[nameSet.size()]);
>> }
>>
>> public void setProperty(Object arg0, String arg1, Object arg2) {
>> throw new RuntimeException(
>> "Manipulation through JXPath is not allowed.... (yet)");
>> }
>>
>> private HashSet<String> collectChildNames(Object PojoNode) {
>> HashSet<String> nameSet = new HashSet<String>();
>> for (PojoNode childPojo : (PojoNode) PojoNode) {
>> nameSet.add(childPojo.getPojo().getName());
>> }
>> return nameSet;
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> ........................................................................................
>>
>> public class PojoNodeXBeanInfo implements JXPathBeanInfo{
>>
>> private static final Logger log =
>> Logger.getLogger(PojoNodeXBeanInfo.class);
>>
>>
>> public Class<PojoNodeDynamicPropertyHandler>
>> getDynamicPropertyHandlerClass() {
>>
>> log.debug("JXPath has asked for this, w00t!");
>>
>> return PojoNodeDynamicPropertyHandler.class;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> public PropertyDescriptor getPropertyDescriptor(String arg0) {
>>
>> log.debug("JXPath has asked for this, w00t!");
>>
>> return null;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> public PropertyDescriptor[] getPropertyDescriptors() {
>>
>> log.debug("JXPath has asked for this, w00t!");
>>
>> return null;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> public boolean isAtomic() {
>>
>> log.debug("JXPath has asked for this, w00t!");
>>
>> return false;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> public boolean isDynamic() {
>>
>> log.debug("JXPath has asked for this, w00t!");
>>
>> return true;
>>
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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