org.writersforge.catalan.transform.xml
Class XmlToBean

java.lang.Object
  org.writersforge.catalan.transform.BaseNodeProcessor
      org.writersforge.catalan.transform.xml.XmlToBean

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.writersforge.bellows.traverse.NodeProcessor

public class XmlToBean

extends BaseNodeProcessor

A processor which converts each Datum input node into a JavaBean. Each XML-to-JavaBean conversion consists of two consecutive input data nodes: the target JavaBean class (as a fully qualified class name String or as a Class object); and the Datum tree itself. The processor will do its best to reconcile the XML content with the target Java class according to a very simple mapping between XML and JavaBean properties. Data that does not correlate with a JavaBean property or cannot be converted to the desired property type will be ignored.

Author:

jsheets

Constructor Summary

XmlToBean()
Creates a new instance of BeanToXml.

Method Summary

java.util.List

processNode(java.lang.Object node) Process a single node.

Methods inherited from class org.writersforge.catalan.transform.BaseNodeProcessor

addLeftover, end, getLeftovers, getNodes, start

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XmlToBean

public XmlToBean()

Creates a new instance of BeanToXml.

Method Detail

processNode

public java.util.List processNode(java.lang.Object node)

Process a single node. The processing action can be any arbitrary task, such as text replacement, data restructuring, or even statistical gathering. The processor should return a processed version of the node; this can be the same object untouched, or the same object modified, or a new set of objects.

Parameters:

node - the node to process

Returns:

a List of processing results (can be empty)