Craig,
Thank you for your reply.
Sorry, I am still confused. How can I just initialize Employee with ID = 1?
My xml contains SEVERAL employees.
When I call digester.parse() method, I get an object with all the employees.
I just want one Employee with the ID that I specify.
Regards,
Aravinda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: Digester: Examples
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Aravinda Addala wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 14:54:44 -0000
> > From: Aravinda Addala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
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> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Digester: Examples
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to Digester. I have looked at the examples and they are great
to
> > understand.
> >
> > I want to create objects based on the properties.
> > My XML file contains several employees each has a ID as property. How
can I
> > use digester to initialize a employee object based on ID?
> >
> > My XML looks like this:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <employees>
> > <employee id=1 firstName="First Name" lastName="Last Name">
> > <address type="home" street="Home Street" city="Home City"
> > state="HS" zipCode="HmZip"/>
> > <address type="office" street="Office Street" city="Office City"
> > state="OS" zipCode="OfZip"/>
> > </employee>
> >
> > <employee id=2 firstName="First Name" lastName="Last Name">
> > <address type="home" street="Home Street" city="Home City"
> > state="HS" zipCode="HmZip"/>
> > <address type="office" street="Office Street" city="Office City"
> > state="OS" zipCode="OfZip"/>
> > </employee>
> >
> > </employees>
> >
> > Please help.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aravinda.
> >
>
> Assume you have the following JavaBeans:
>
> package com.mycompany.myapp;
> public class Employee {
> public Employee() { ... }
> public int getId();
> public void setId(int id);
> public String getFirstName();
> public void setFirstName(String firstName);
> public String getLastName();
> public void setLastName(String lastName);
> public void addAddress(Address address);
> }
>
> package com.mycompany.myapp;
> public class Address {
> public Address() { ... }
> ... getters and setters for "type", "street", "state", "zipCode" ...
> }
>
> then the following rules should work fine:
>
> digester.addObjectCreate("employee", "com.mycompany.myapp.Employee");
> digester.addSetProperties("employee");
> digester.addObjectCreate("employee/address",
> "com.mycompany.myapp.Address");
> digester.addSetProperties("employee/address");
> digester.addSetNext("employee/address", "addAddress",
> "com.mycompany.myapp.Address");
>
> The set properties rule will do conversions for all the native Java types,
> so an "id" property is no different than any other. However, you will
> need to put quotes around your id values -- it's not valid XML syntax to
> have unquoted attribute values.
>
> Craig
>
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