001 /* $Id: FinderSetProperties.java 471661 2006-11-06 08:09:25Z skitching $
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018
019 package org.apache.commons.digester.plugins.strategies;
020
021 import java.util.Properties;
022
023 import org.apache.commons.digester.Digester;
024 import org.apache.commons.digester.plugins.RuleFinder;
025 import org.apache.commons.digester.plugins.RuleLoader;
026
027 /**
028 * A rule-finding algorithm which expects the user to specify whether
029 * "automatic property setting" is desired. If this class discovers that
030 * this is in fact the case for a declaration, then a RuleLoader is returned
031 * which, when invoked, adds a single SetPropertiesRule instance to the
032 * digester.
033 * <p>
034 * This allows ordinary JavaBean classes to be used as plugins, and have
035 * xml attributes be mapped to bean properties of the same name, without
036 * any custom plugin rules being created for them.
037 * <p>
038 * This RuleFinder is typically used as the <i>last</i> RuleFinder, so that
039 * automatic property setting only occurs if there is no other source of
040 * custom rules available.
041 *
042 * @since 1.6
043 */
044
045 public class FinderSetProperties extends RuleFinder {
046 public static String DFLT_PROPS_ATTR = "setprops";
047 public static String DFLT_FALSEVAL = "false";
048
049 private String propsAttr;
050 private String falseval;
051
052 /** See {@link #findLoader}. */
053 public FinderSetProperties() {
054 this(DFLT_PROPS_ATTR, DFLT_FALSEVAL);
055 }
056
057 /**
058 * Create a rule-finder which will arrange for a SetPropertiesRule to
059 * be defined for each instance of a plugin, so that xml attributes
060 * map to bean properties.
061 * <p>
062 * Param falseval will commonly be the string "false" for config files
063 * written in English.
064 *
065 * @param propsAttr must be non-null.
066 * @param falseval must be non-null.
067 */
068 public FinderSetProperties(String propsAttr, String falseval) {
069 this.propsAttr = propsAttr;
070 this.falseval = falseval;
071 }
072
073 /**
074 * Returns a RuleLoader <i>unless</i> the properties contain an entry
075 * with the name matching constructor param propsAttr, and the value
076 * matching what is in falseval.
077 * <p>
078 * If no custom source of rules for a plugin is found, then the user
079 * almost always wants xml attributes to map to java bean properties,
080 * so this is the default behaviour unless the user explicitly indicates
081 * that they do <i>not</i> want a SetPropertiesRule to be provided for
082 * the plugged-in class.
083 * <p>
084 * The returned object (when non-null) will add a SetPropertiesRule to
085 * the digester whenever its addRules method is invoked.
086 */
087 public RuleLoader findLoader(Digester d, Class pluginClass, Properties p) {
088 String state = p.getProperty(propsAttr);
089 if ((state != null) && state.equals(falseval)) {
090 // user has explicitly disabled automatic setting of properties.
091 // this is not expected to be common, but allowed.
092 return null;
093 }
094
095 return new LoaderSetProperties();
096 }
097 }
098