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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:31:02 -0500
From: Dan Diephouse <dan.diephouse@mulesource.com>
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Awesome - this rocks and will be eminently useful!
- Dan

James M Snell wrote:
> I've added support for URI/IRI Templates to the IRI module based on
> http://bitworking.org/projects/URI-Templates/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-02.html
>
> Examples:
>
> Template instances are immutable and threadsafe.
>
> private static final Template template =
>   new
> Template("http://example.org{-opt|/~|user}{user}{-opt|/-/|categories}{-listjoin|/|categories}{-opt|?|foo,bar}{-join|&|foo,bar}");
>
>
> Templates can be resolved from a Map, from Java object getters and
> fields, or from a custom Context implementation
>
>  Map<String,Object> map = new HashMap();
>  map.put("user","james");
>  map.put("categories", new String[] {"a","b","c"});
>  map.put("foo", "abc");
>  map.put("bar", "xyz");
>  System.out.println(template.expand(map));
>
>  > http://example.org/~james/-/a/b/c?foo=abc&bar=xyz
>
>
> The Java object approach will examine the public fields and getters of
> passed in java objects.
>
>  public static class MyObject {
>    public String user = "james";
>    public List getCategories() {
>      List<String> list =
>        new ArrayList<String>();
>      list.add("a");
>      list.add("b");
>      list.add("c");
>      return list;
>    }
>    public Foo[] getFoo() {
>      return new Foo[] {
>        new Foo(),
>        new Foo()
>      };
>    }
>    public String getBar() {
>      return "xyz";
>    }
>  }
>
>  private static class Foo {
>    public String toString() { return "abcæ"; }
>  }
>
>  MyObject myObject = new MyObject();
>  System.out.println(template.expand(myObject,true));
>
>  > http://example.org/~james/-/a/b/c?foo=abc%C3%A6&foo=abc%C3%A6&bar=xyz
>
>
> The custom Context implementation approach allows template variables to
> be resolved dynamically,
>
>   CachingContext context = new CachingContext() {
>     private static final long serialVersionUID = 4896250661828139020L;
>     protected <T> T resolveActual(String var) {
>       if (var.equals("user")) return (T)"james";
>       else if (var.equals("categories"))
>         return (T)new String[] {"a","b","c"};
>       else if (var.equals("foo")) return (T)"abc";
>       else if (var.equals("bar")) return (T)"xyz";
>       else return null;
>     }
>     public Iterator<String> iterator() {
>       return Arrays.asList(
>         new String[] {"user","categories","foo","bar"}).iterator();
>       }
>     };
>   System.out.println(template.expand(context));
>
>   > http://example.org/~james/-/a/b/c?foo=abc&bar=xyz
>
> The implementation will continue to evolve as the URI Template spec evolves.
>
> - James
>   


-- 
Dan Diephouse
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