Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML resource and use it later ?
On 02/16/2011 02:32 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Moein, Moein Enayati wrote: Dear all Hi Till now ,whenever I want to use Apache.Commons.Configuration API with an XML file , I’ve written down myBeans definition manually in XML resource. But now I have a new demand to use complex beans with complex property types and the ability to save them (their signature) automatically in the XML resource. I’ve just find apache.commons.betwixt. BeanWriter() having the ability , but it seems configuration-API has its own signature. Is there any way in Apache.commons.configuration to save my beans in an xml file which is compatible with configuration ? This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like XStream. - Jörg Just sharing an observation I have made while researching my configuration needs. I ended up looking in commons configuration for a means of loading a configuration from XML into a Configuration object and then loading from that Configuration into a bean. I still wanted interpolation and combined configuration. I did not find that in Configuration so I decided that I would still use Configuration and not design and implement that particular solution. My use case, I am writing an application, maven plugin, ant plugin, all of which basically does the same thing. Both ant and maven have a a configuration api that represents a bean as XML. So that covered both ant and maven, but I still needed a way to configure the application. I thought it would be nice to leverage the same concept that I used for maven and ant. The idea being that maven, ant, and the application would load their configuration into the same bean object. The XML between the three may not be syntactically the same, but it would be familiar. I find the configuration api to be useful as it is, and I am perfectly happy adding an additional library for functionality when it is out of scope for configuration. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML resource and use it later ?
Hi Moein, Moein Enayati wrote: Dear all Hi Till now ,whenever I want to use Apache.Commons.Configuration API with an XML file , I’ve written down myBeans definition manually in XML resource. But now I have a new demand to use complex beans with complex property types and the ability to save them (their signature) automatically in the XML resource. I’ve just find apache.commons.betwixt. BeanWriter() having the ability , but it seems configuration-API has its own signature. Is there any way in Apache.commons.configuration to save my beans in an xml file which is compatible with configuration ? This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like XStream. - Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML resource and use it later ?
Dear Jörg You're ok! But have a look at this part of code : *BeanDeclaration bDecl = new XMLBeanDeclaration(xmlConfig, myBeanNameRootAddress);* *MyBean myBean = (MyBean ) BeanHelper.createBean(bDecl);* Here we have the ability to load a predefined bean out of an XML file. So I thought it must be a simple way to save that bean into the same file ! You know , I’m worry about using another library to save myBean into the file and I can’t load its XMLDeclaration later on. Am I right? On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@scalaris.comwrote: Hi Moein, * Moein Enayati wrote: ..* This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like XStream. - Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML resource and use it later ?
Am 16.02.2011 11:50, schrieb Moein Enayati: Dear Jörg You're ok! But have a look at this part of code : *BeanDeclaration bDecl = new XMLBeanDeclaration(xmlConfig, myBeanNameRootAddress);* *MyBean myBean = (MyBean ) BeanHelper.createBean(bDecl);* Here we have the ability to load a predefined bean out of an XML file. So I thought it must be a simple way to save that bean into the same file ! You know , I’m worry about using another library to save myBean into the file and I can’t load its XMLDeclaration later on. Am I right? This support for loading beans in Commons Configuration is more like in the Spring framework (but in a very limited form). There you also define beans in configuration files which you can load at runtime, but you do not have the possibility to store beans and update your configuration files. As Jörg pointed out, you are really after a XML bean mapper. Commons Configuration does not support this use case, at least not in a convenient way. Sorry Oliver On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jörg Schaible joerg.schai...@scalaris.comwrote: Hi Moein, * Moein Enayati wrote: ..* This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like XStream. - Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@commons.apache.org
