com.cappuccinonet.strutscx.xslt
Class StrutsCXBeanToElement

java.lang.Object
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public class StrutsCXBeanToElement

extends java.lang.Object

Serializes a bean, respectively a FormBean, into a org.jdom.Element. This class is used by the StrutsCXDocumentBuilder class. Idea by Julien Mercay and Gilberd Bouzeid, Orbeon.com.

Version:

v0.8, 2002.10.15

Author:

Bernhard Woehrlin, IT.CappuccinoNet.com

Field Summary

private static Logger	logger The Logger we use to log JDK 1.4 conform.
private static java.lang.String	THIS_CLASS A String with this Classname used for system messages.

Constructor Summary

StrutsCXBeanToElement()

Method Summary

private Element	checkBeanContent(java.lang.Object bean) This method looks into a bean for the getters and invoke them to get the property's value.
Element	getBeanContent(java.lang.Object bean) Main method to serialize a bean and its content.
private Element	getBeanElement(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value, Element baseElement) This method serializes a JavaBean property.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

THIS_CLASS

private static final java.lang.String THIS_CLASS

A String with this Classname used for system messages.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

logger

private static Logger logger

The Logger we use to log JDK 1.4 conform.

Constructor Detail

StrutsCXBeanToElement

public StrutsCXBeanToElement()

Method Detail

getBeanContent

public Element getBeanContent(java.lang.Object bean)

Main method to serialize a bean and its content.

Parameters:

bean - a JavaBean to serialize

Returns:

org.w3c.dom.Element

checkBeanContent

private Element checkBeanContent(java.lang.Object bean)
                          throws java.beans.IntrospectionException,
                                 java.lang.IllegalAccessException,
                                 java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

This method looks into a bean for the getters and invoke them to get the property's value.

Parameters:

bean - a JavaBean to introspect

Returns:

org.w3c.dom.Element

Throws:

java.beans.IntrospectionException

java.lang.IllegalAccessException

java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

getBeanElement

private Element getBeanElement(java.lang.String name,
                               java.lang.Object value,
                               Element baseElement)

This method serializes a JavaBean property. If the property is:

1. an instance of Collection, we iterate through it to serialize all items in the collection. The resulting DOM tree looks like: OneTwo
2. an instance java.lang.*, we simply invoke toString()
3. null, NOP
4. an instance of another class, we inspect that bean.

   Parameters:

   name - the name of the property

   value - the value of the property

   baseElement - where to append to resulting DOM tree

   Returns:

   org.w3c.dom.Element