Class XmlConfiguration
Configures objects from XML.
This class reads an XML file conforming to the configure.dtd DTD and uses it to configure and object by calling set, put or other methods on the object.
The actual XML file format may be changed (eg to spring XML) by implementing the
ConfigurationProcessorFactory
interface to be found by the
ServiceLoader
by using the DTD and first tag element in the file.
Note that DTD will be null if validation is off.
The configuration can be parameterised with properties that are looked up via the
Property XML element and set on the configuration via the map returned from
getProperties()
The configuration can create and lookup beans by ID. If multiple configurations are used, then it
is good practise to copy the entries from the getIdMap()
of a configuration to the next
configuration so that they can share an ID space for beans.
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Field Summary
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Constructor Summary
ConstructorDescriptionXmlConfiguration
(Resource resource) Reads and parses the XML configuration file.Reads and parses the XML configuration file. -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionApplies the XML configuration script.Applies the XML configuration script to the given object.getIdMap()
Get the map of ID String to Objects that is used to hold and lookup any objects by ID.Get the map of properties used by the Property XML element to parametrize configuration.void
initializeDefaults
(Object object) Initialize a new Object defaults.static void
Runs the XML configurations as a main application.static String
normalizeURI
(String uri) static String
resolvePath
(String dir, String destPath) Utility method to resolve a provided path against a directory.void
setJettyStandardIdsAndProperties
(Object server, Path webapp) Set the standard IDs and properties expected in a jetty XML file: RefId Server Property jetty.home Property jetty.home.uri Property jetty.base Property jetty.base.uri Property jetty.webapps Property jetty.webapps.uritoString()
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Field Details
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EXECUTABLE_COMPARATOR
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Constructor Details
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XmlConfiguration
Reads and parses the XML configuration file.- Parameters:
resource
- the Resource to the XML configuration- Throws:
IOException
- not thrown anymore (kept for signature backwards compat)SAXException
- not thrown anymore (kept for signature backwards compat)XmlConfigurationException
- if configuration was not able to loaded from XML provided
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XmlConfiguration
public XmlConfiguration(Resource resource, Map<String, Object> idMap, Map<String, throws SAXException, IOExceptionString> properties) Reads and parses the XML configuration file.- Parameters:
resource
- the Resource to the XML configurationidMap
- Map of objects with IDsproperties
- Map of properties- Throws:
IOException
- not thrown anymore (kept for signature backwards compat)SAXException
- not thrown anymore (kept for signature backwards compat)XmlConfigurationException
- if configuration was not able to loaded from XML provided
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Method Details
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setJettyStandardIdsAndProperties
Set the standard IDs and properties expected in a jetty XML file:- RefId Server
- Property jetty.home
- Property jetty.home.uri
- Property jetty.base
- Property jetty.base.uri
- Property jetty.webapps
- Property jetty.webapps.uri
- Parameters:
server
- The Server object to setwebapp
- The webapps Resource
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normalizeURI
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getXmlParser
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toString
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getIdMap
Get the map of ID String to Objects that is used to hold and lookup any objects by ID.A New, Get or Call XML element may have an id attribute which will cause the resulting object to be placed into this map. A Ref XML element will lookup an object from this map.
When chaining configuration files, it is good practise to copy the ID entries from the ID map to the map of the next configuration, so that they may share an ID space
- Returns:
- A modifiable map of ID strings to Objects
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getProperties
Get the map of properties used by the Property XML element to parametrize configuration.- Returns:
- A modifiable map of properties.
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configure
Applies the XML configuration script to the given object.- Parameters:
obj
- The object to be configured, which must be of a type or super type of the class attribute of the <Configure> element.- Returns:
- the configured object
- Throws:
Exception
- if the configuration fails
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configure
Applies the XML configuration script. If the root element of the configuration has an ID, an object is looked up by ID and its type checked against the root element's type. Otherwise a new object of the type specified by the root element is created.- Returns:
- The newly created configured object.
- Throws:
Exception
- if the configuration fails
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initializeDefaults
Initialize a new Object defaults.This method must be called by any
ConfigurationProcessor
when it creates a new instance of an object before configuring it, so that a derived XmlConfiguration class may inject default values.- Parameters:
object
- the object to initialize defaults on
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resolvePath
Utility method to resolve a provided path against a directory.- Parameters:
dir
- the directory (should be a directory reference, does not have to exist)destPath
- the destination path (can be relative or absolute, syntax depends on OS + FileSystem in use, and does not need to exist)- Returns:
- String to resolved and normalized path, or null if dir or destPath is empty.
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main
Runs the XML configurations as a main application. The command line is used to obtain properties files (must be named '*.properties') and XmlConfiguration files.Any property file on the command line is added to a combined Property instance that is passed to each configuration file via
getProperties()
.Each configuration file on the command line is used to create a new XmlConfiguration instance and the
configure()
method is used to create the configured object. If the resulting object is an instance ofLifeCycle
, then it is started.Any IDs created in a configuration are passed to the next configuration file on the command line using
getIdMap()
. This allows objects with IDs created in one config file to be referenced in subsequent config files on the command line.
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