Mailing-List: contact commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Jakarta Commons Users List" <commons-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Received-SPF: neutral (hermes.apache.org: local policy)
Subject: Re: [Digester] Is capability to set object property based on
	attribute value comparison present?
From: Simon Kitching <skitching@apache.org>
Reply-To: skitching@apache.org
To: Kartik Asatkar <krakhack@gmail.com>
Cc: commons-user@jakarta.apache.org
In-Reply-To: <2bd891e305020215506bb73262@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2bd891e305020215506bb73262@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:33:26 +1300
Message-Id: <1107405206.5418.95.camel@blackbox>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:50 -0600, Kartik Asatkar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is regarding Digester v1.6
> 
> Is it possible to set an object property with value taken from body or
> a particular attribute based on comparison of another attribute value
> (this needs to be specified in the xml rule file)?
> 
> Something like -
>     - if attribute X value matches Y then set parameter N to body of element
>     - if attribute X value matches Y then set parameter N to value of
> attribute Z

No such functionality is built in to digester. However it wouldn't be
too hard to write a custom Rule to do this. Writing custom Rule classes
is really pretty easy....


> 
> I need to be able to do this in the xml rule file?

Accessing custom rule classes from xmlrules is complicated. In addition
to creating your Rule, you need to subclass the
   o.a.c.d.xmlrules.DigesterRuleParser
class to add a factory that can instantiate and configure your rule.

Regards,

Simon


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: commons-user-help@jakarta.apache.org