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From: "Dmitri Plotnikov" <dmitri@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [jxpath] Custom NodePointer implementation
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:42:03 -0400
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Simon,

A possible alternative to using custom NodePointers in this situation could
be a custom Function.

Step 1. You implement a static method that does pretty much what you have in
your example:

public class MyFunc {
 public static Bar barByLang(Foo foo, String ln) {
  Language lang = (Language)mapping.get(ln);
  return foo.getBar(lang);
 }
}

Step 2. Register the MyFunc class with JXPathContext.

Step 3. Use the function like this context.getValue("barByLang(/foo,
'fr')");

Also see
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/jxpath/users-guide.html#Extension%20Functions


Now, if you insist on custom implementation of NodePointer, choose the right
superclass.  For example, BeanPropertyPointer might be the right one.

I hope this helps

- Dmitri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Simon Raess" <cocoa@gmx.ch>
To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:32 PM
Subject: [jxpath] Custom NodePointer implementation


> hi
>
> I hope to get some ideas how to implement the following:
>
> Let's say I have a class Foo that can contain several Bar instances.
> The Bar instances are accessed by a key, let's say a Language object.
> So I have the following methods in Foo:
>
> public Bar getBar(Language l);
> public Set getLanguages();
>
> In the model of my application I don't want to have an absolute
> ordering of Bar objects, that is I don't want to expose a method like
>
> public Bar getBar(int index);
>
> or similar. My idea is to have an external object impose an ordering on
> the Bar objects (that is an ordering on languages). The point is, that
> the ordering may change at runtime. What that basically means is, that
> I'll have a mapping from a int key to a Language. For example the
> mapping would contain:
>
> Language   int key
> de         0
> fr         1
> en         2
>
> So my idea is to create a custom NodePointer that receives such a
> mapping definition (so it knows about the ordering of languages). The
> following xpath expression (with the above mapping definition) should
> return the text with language fr:
>
> foo/bar[2]
>
> This should be translated (by the custom NodePointer) to a call to:
>
> int index = ...;
> Foo foo = ...;
> List mapping = ...;
> Language lang = (Language)mapping.get(index);
> Bar fr_bar = foo.getBar(lang);
>
> The following xpath
>
> foo/bar
>
> should probably be converted to something like
>
> List list = foo.getBar();
>
> I'm still unconfident about the jxpath internals, so could please
> somebody give me some pointers how I could achieve that? I'm I on the
> right tracks? Which methods from NodePointer class must I override
> (except the abstract ones, of course)? Is there a simple example that
> shows how to implement a NodePointer for objects without using any
> reflection, introspection, ...? Is there anything else I should
> consider? Please ask me if I missed some important information!
>
> best regards
> Simon
>
>
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