Class FinderFromMethod

java.lang.Object

org.apache.commons.digester.plugins.RuleFinder

org.apache.commons.digester.plugins.strategies.FinderFromMethod

public class FinderFromMethod
extends RuleFinder

A rule-finding algorithm which expects the caller to specify a methodname as a plugin property, where the method exists on the plugin class.

Since:

1.6

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static String	DFLT_METHOD_ATTR	Xml attribute that needs to be present on a plugin declaration in order to specify the method to load rules from.
private String	methodAttr	See findLoader(Digester, Class, Properties).

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FinderFromMethod()	Constructor.
FinderFromMethod(String methodAttr)	See findLoader(Digester, Class, Properties).

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
RuleLoader	findLoader(Digester d, Class<?> pluginClass, Properties p)	If there exists a property with the name matching constructor param methodAttr, then locate the appropriate Method on the plugin class and return an object encapsulating that info.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

DFLT_METHOD_ATTR

public static String DFLT_METHOD_ATTR

Xml attribute that needs to be present on a plugin declaration in order to specify the method to load rules from.

methodAttr

private String methodAttr

See findLoader(Digester, Class, Properties).

Constructor Details

FinderFromMethod

public FinderFromMethod()

Constructor.

FinderFromMethod

public FinderFromMethod(String methodAttr)

See findLoader(Digester, Class, Properties).

Method Details

findLoader

public RuleLoader findLoader(Digester d,
 Class<?> pluginClass,
 Properties p)
                      throws PluginException

If there exists a property with the name matching constructor param methodAttr, then locate the appropriate Method on the plugin class and return an object encapsulating that info.

If there is no matching property provided, then just return null.

The returned object (when non-null) will invoke the target method on the plugin class whenever its addRules method is invoked. The target method is expected to have the following prototype: public static void xxxxx(Digester d, String patternPrefix);

Specified by:

findLoader in class RuleFinder

Throws:

PluginException