Hi,
Thanks for the prompt response.
Thats very much what i would like, but then, how do i produce calls to
this class?
The rules i see only allow me to produce calls on the objects on the stack.
Best,
Pau
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Adrian Crum <adrian.c...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> You could put the parsing helper code in a separate class:
>
> public class ParserUtil {
>
> public static boolean isFullDuplex(String hardwareDependentString) {
> return hardwareDependentString.equalsIgnoreCase("FULL-DUPLEX");
> }
> }
>
> -Adrian
>
> --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Pau Minoves <pau.mino...@i2cat.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have some doubts here on how apache digester (2.1) is
>> meant to be
>> used. I don't think we are on a strange scenario so there
>> is probably
>> something we are missing.
>>
>> In our case, we have a (bean) data model that we need to
>> create from a
>> series of xmls. This data model represents network
>> configuration and
>> we have xml's that come from different network devices.
>> Each network
>> device produces different XMLs so we use a set of digester
>> rules to
>> parse that into the data model.
>>
>> So digester rules are device specific while our data model
>> (wants to
>> be) is device agnostic.
>>
>> The problem we see is that the digester forces us (via
>> rules as
>> CallMethodRule) to include parsing logic in methods
>> *inside* the data
>> model and that kind of breaks our hardware abstration
>> layer.
>>
>> I can illustrate this with an example. In one of the
>> devices, a string
>> comes stating if an interface is "HALF-DUPLEX" or
>> "FULL-DUPLEX", in
>> our data model, we have a boolean for that. We have this
>> logic:
>>
>> void bool isFullDuplex(String hardwareDependentString)
>> {
>> if(
>> hardwareDependentString.equalsIgnoreCase("FULL-DUPLEX")
>> return true;
>> else
>> return false;
>> }
>>
>> Using basic digester rules we have to create this method in
>> the data
>> model while i would like to keep it next to the parser, as
>> it is where
>> this kind of logic belongs.
>>
>> Are we missing something? This is something that is
>> happening all the
>> time to us (XMLs are quite hardware dependent) so we are
>> open to
>> proposals :)
>>
>> Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks,
>> Pau
>
>
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