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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:39:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Dmitri Plotnikov <dplotnik@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dmitri@apache.org
Subject: Re: Setting values in XMLForm (via JXPath)
To: Christopher Oliver <res1cf5x@verizon.net>, ivelin@apache.org
Cc: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org
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Christopher,

The answer to your question really depends on whether you want to
replace an existing collection element or create a new one.  To create
and element, use createPathAndSetValue.  To replace the textual
contents of an existing element, simply use setValue()

- Dmitri

--- Christopher Oliver <res1cf5x@verizon.net> wrote:
> It appears that XMLForm's use of JXPath is hardcoded to setting
> indexed 
> values only on Java arrays and Collections (not DOM nodes or other
> types 
> of JXPath nodes). I was attempting to use a JavaScript object as a 
> JXPath node, but ran into the below problem in Form.java 
>
(http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xml-cocoon2/src/java/org/apache/cocoon/components/xmlform/Form.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain)
> 
> Dmitri, what is the proper way to set collection values in JXPath? 
> Should we be using createPathAndSetValue() here?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
>        public void setValue(String xpath, Object[] values) {
> 
>                 //    // Dmitri Plotnikov's patch
>                 //   
>                 //    // if there are multiple values to set
>                 //    // (like in the selectMany case),
>                 //    // iterate over the array and set individual
> values
>                 //    if ( values.length > 1  )
>                 //    {
>                 //      Iterator iter = 
> jxcontext_.iteratePointers(xpath);     
>                 //      for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++ )
>                 //      {
>                 //        Pointer ptr = (Pointer)iter.next();
>                 //        ptr.setValue(values[i]);
>                 //      }
>                 //    }
>                 //    else
>                 //    {
>                 //      // This is supposed to do the right thing
>                 //      jxcontext_.setValue(xpath, values);
>                 //    }   
>                 //   
> 
>                 Pointer pointer = jxcontext_.getPointer(xpath);
>                 Object property = pointer.getValue();
>                 // if there are multiple values to set
>                 // (like in the selectMany case),
>                 // iterate over the array and set individual values
> 
>                 // when the instance property is array
>                 if (property != null &&
> property.getClass().isArray()) {
>                         Class componentType = 
> property.getClass().getComponentType();
>                         property =
>                                 java.lang.reflect.Array.newInstance(
>                                         componentType,
>                                         values.length);
>                         java.lang.System.arraycopy(values, 0,
> property, 
> 0, values.length);
>                         pointer.setValue(property);
>                 } else if (property instanceof Collection) {
>                         Collection cl = (Collection) property;
>                         cl.clear();
>                         cl.addAll(java.util.Arrays.asList(values));
>                 }
>                 // otherwise set the value of the first element
>                 // (and the only) from the values array
>                 else {
>                         pointer.setValue(values[0]);
>                 }
>         }
> 
> 
> 


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