On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Renaud, Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > Ok thanks. That make sense. I was just checking in case of... > > > I start prototyping with scxml, so I might bother you again in the next > couple days ;-) > <snip/>
Its no bother, please ask away ;-) -Rahul > -Martin > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rahul Akolkar [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:41 PM > To: Commons Users List > Subject: Re: SCXML : can we use ${prop-name-attributes} within <scxml /> > definition ? > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Renaud, Martin<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi Rahul, >> >> Thanks for answering. >> >> I want to avoid repeating the event name twice, because of the typo risks >> (among others). >> >> For example, once in the state machine definition: >> >> <state id="MyState"> >> <transition event="core.request.sent" target="MySecondState"/> >> </state> >> >> And again in the code: >> >> public static String EVENT_NAME = "core.request.send"; >> ... >> mySM.fireEvent(EVENT_NAME) >> >> >> The names are different (send/sent). >> > <snip/> > > OK, got it. > > >> I could easily inject the names in my java code using spring and a property >> file. EX: >> >> event.name.foo=core.request.sent >> >> and use the property name ${event.name.foo} where I need in spring files and >> use some bean to trigger the events. I would like to know if there is a >> similar substitution mechanism that allows me to use to a property file (the >> same in this case) against my state machine definition. >> >> I understand that I can pre-process the xml document before handing it to >> scxml, but I wanted to know if this feature exists or is being plan. >> > <snap/> > > You will have to do some pre-processing since this kind of > substitution is not provided as a feature by Commons SCXML. One could > imagine a number of technologies (generate a DTD or DOCTYPE with > entities, straight text replacement etc.) that will allow setting up > of such pre-processing, so in that sense it almost seems beyond the > scope of the core library function. > > -Rahul > > >> Thanks, >> >> Martin >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rahul Akolkar [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 3:05 PM >> To: Commons Users List >> Subject: Re: SCXML : can we use ${prop-name-attributes} within <scxml /> >> definition ? >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Renaud, Martin<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to know if it's possible, using a built-in feature of >>> apache commons scxml, to use property place holder in the xml file that >>> defines the state machine ? The reason is to avoid duplication of event >>> names in the sm definition and in the java code ? >>> >> <snip/> >> >> Not sure which duplication is being refered to, please elaborate. >> >> >>> >>> >>> Basically, I would like to do something like this and have a property >>> file defining eventA and eventB. >>> >> <snap/> >> >> Pre-processing of any sort can be done to the SCXML document before >> being handed to the library ofcourse. It seems something like XML >> entities may help you here (but I'll need help understanding the >> question first). >> >> -Rahul >> >> >>> >>> >>> <scxml xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/07/scxml"; >>> version="1.0" >>> initialstate="reset"> >>> >>> <state id="MyState"> >>> <transition event="${eventA}" target="MySecondState"/> >>> </state> >>> >>> <state id="MySecondState"> >>> <transition event="${eventB}" target="MyState"/> >>> </state> >>> </scxml> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
