Kimbro Staken wrote:
>
> It can but this is mainly used to switch what representation you want
> for XML. e.g. SAX, DOM, Text. This is definitely the one thing about the
> API that I'm not really happy with.
>
> The use case looks like.
>
> Collection collection = DatabaseManager.getCollection("some db uri");
>
> // tell the API you want a DOMNodeResource when you call getResource()
> collection.setResourceType("DOMNode");
>
> String id = "gladiator-2000";
> DOMNodeResource resource = (DOMNodeResource) collection.getResource(id);
> Document doc = (Document) resource.getContent();
I (still) haven't had a chance to look at the new API, but I had assumed
we would simply have different methods her -- something like the
following. (Pardon my Java-isms ;)
void Collection.getSAXResource(id, contentHandler);
Document Collection.getDOMResource(id);
String Collection.getStringResource(id);
byte[] Collection.getBinaryResource(id);
> BTW, do we really need to be able to support mixed binary/XML within the
> same collection?
Yes. Restricting it would sort of be like saying a table can only have
CHAR columns.
> > > In Collection there should probably be a getChildCollection method to
> > > retrieve a collection relative to the current collection.
> > >
> > > In Collection there is currently a getChildCollections method that
> > > returns a list of Collection instances. This would probably be better as
> > > a listChildCollections method that returns a list of child collection
> > > names instead of actual collection instances. You could then use
> > > getChildCollection to retrieve the Collection instances as needed.
> > >
>
> Any opinion on this change?
+1
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Ronald Bourret
Programming, Writing, and Training
XML, Databases, and Schemas
http://www.rpbourret.com
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