org.apache.commons.digester.plugins.strategies

Class 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
static StringDFLT_METHOD_ATTR
Xml attribute that needs to be present on a plugin declaration in order to specify the method to load rules from.
Constructor Summary
FinderFromMethod()
Constructor.
FinderFromMethod(String methodAttr)
Method Summary
RuleLoaderfindLoader(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.

Field Detail

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.

Constructor Detail

FinderFromMethod

public FinderFromMethod()
Constructor.

FinderFromMethod

public FinderFromMethod(String methodAttr)
See FinderFromMethod.

Method Detail

findLoader

public 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.

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);

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