Constructor Detail

• FinderFromMethod

  public FinderFromMethod()

  Constructor.

• FinderFromMethod

  public FinderFromMethod(String methodAttr)

  See findLoader(org.apache.commons.digester3.Digester, java.lang.Class<?>, java.util.Properties).

  Parameters:

  methodAttr - The XML attribute that needs to be present on a plugin declaration in order to specify the method to load rules from.

Method Detail

• 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

  Parameters:

  d - The digester instance where locating plugin classes

  pluginClass - The plugin Java class

  p - The properties object that holds any xml attributes the user may have specified on the plugin declaration in order to indicate how to locate the plugin rules.

  Returns:

  a source of digester rules for the specified plugin class.

  Throws:

  PluginException - if the algorithm finds a source of rules, but there is something invalid about that source.