通常用来读取xml文件的工具包有DOM、SAX和JDOM等,但用过的人都知道,它们属于比较底层的API,写起来代码量很大,并且若是修改了xml文件的格式,代码也要作大幅度的改动。而使用Apache Jakarta的Digester,解析XML文件很是方便且不须要过多的关心底层的具体解析过程。Digester原本仅仅是Jakarta Struts中的一个工具,用于处理struts-config.xml配置文件。显然,将XML文件转换成相应的Java对象是一项很通用的功能,这个工具理应具备更普遍的用途,因此很快它就在Jakarta Commons项目(用于提供可重用的Java组件库)中有了一席之地。Digester由"事件"驱动,经过调用预约义的规则操做对象栈,将XML文件转换为Java对象。html
工做原理以下: Digester底层采用SAX(Simple API for XML)析XML文件,因此很天然的,对象转换由"事件"驱动,在遍历每一个节点时,检查是否有匹配模式,若是有,则执行规则定义的操做,好比建立特定的Java对象,或调用特定对象的方法等。此处的XML元素根据匹配模式(matching pattern)识别,而相关操做由规则(rule)定义。java
1.addObjectCreate(String rule,Class class)web
设置节点与Java对象的映射规则,rule指定节点的筛选规则,class设置映射对象。SAX解析时,遇到rule指定的节节点,会建立一个class实例放入堆栈中。apache
好比:digester.addObectCreate("database/user","com.model.UserBean").解析遇到user节点时,会建立一个UserBean实例并放入堆栈中。api
2.addSetProperties(String rule)工具
设置节点的属性设置规则。当解析遇到符合rule的节点时,根据属性列表中的属性值对,使用Java反射机制使用标准的JavaBean方法设置栈顶对象实例;this
好比:digester.addSetProperties("database/user"),解析遇到user节点时,会获取键值对 userName=guest,password=guest,得到栈顶的UserBean对象,设置实例的userName、password属性;编码
3.addBeanPropertySetter(String rule)spa
该方法的做用及使用方法相似于addSetProperties,只不过它是用rule所指定的标签来调用对象的setter。.net
4.addSetNext(String rule,String methodName)
设置当前rule节点与父节点的调用规则,当遇到rule节点时,调用堆栈中的次栈顶元素调用methodName方法。将栈顶元素做为次顶元素指定方法的输入参数。
好比:digester.addSetNext("database/user","addUser"),调用database实例的addUser,user为参数
5.addCallMethod(String rule,String methodName,int paraNumber)
该方法一样设置对象的属性,但更加灵活,不须要对象具备setter
根据rule规则指定的属性,调用对象的methodName方法,paraNumber参数是表示方法须要的参数个数,当paraNumber=0时,能够单独使用,否则须要配合addCallParam方法
好比:digester.addCallMethod("database/user/userName","setUserName",0), 参数为xml当前值;无参方法:digester.addCallMethod( "pattern", "methodName" );.
6.addCallParam(String rule,int paraIndex,String attributeName)
该方法与addCallMethod配合使用,根据rule指定的标签属性来调用方法
paraIndex代表须要填充的方法形参序号,从0开始,方法由addCallMethdo指定,attributeName指定标签属性名;
使用注意事项:
1.Digester类调用的顺序,必须与XML数据文件绝对一致;
2.Digester类依赖于JavaBean规范,类必须符合规范;
3.XML文件中标签/属性的名称必须与Bean中的一致(包括大小写);
//--webconfig.xml--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web>
<root name = "root_name1">
<bar id="0" title="The Zero Child"/>
<bar id="123" title="The First Child"/>
<bar id="456" title="The Second Child"/>
</root>
<root name = "root_name2">
<bar id="789" title="Another Child"/>
</root>
</web>
Digest |
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Digester digester = new Digester(); |
新建一个类 |
digester.setValidating(false); |
是否进行XML与相应的DTD的合法性验证(此处为false) |
digester.addObjectCreate("root", "Root"); |
当遇到<root>时建立一个Root对象,并将其放在栈顶 |
digester.addSetProperties("root"); |
根据<root>元素的属性(attribute),对刚建立的Root对象的属性(property)进行设置 |
digester.addObjectCreate("root/bar", "Bar"); |
当遇到<root>的子元素<bar>时建立一个Bar对象,并将其放在栈顶。 |
digester.addSetProperties("root/bar"); |
根据<bar>元素的属性(attribute),对刚建立的Bar对象的属性(property)进行设置 |
digester.addSetNext("root/bar", "addBar", "Bar"); |
当再次遇到<root>的子元素<bar>时建立一个Bar对象,并将其放在栈顶,同时调用第二栈顶元素(Root对象)的addBar方法。 |
digester.parse(); |
进行解析,获得的是Object |
以下xml代码,右边是左边元素对应的匹配模式:
- <datasources> 'datasources'
- <datasource> 'datasources/datasource'
- <name/> 'datasources/datasource/name'
- <driver/> 'datasources/datasource/driver'
- </datasource>
- <datasource> 'datasources/datasource'
- <name/> 'datasources/datasource/name'
- <driver/> 'datasources/datasource/driver'
- </datasource>
- </datasources>
例子1:
下面介绍解析xml文件的代码
下面是存放地址及编码的xml文件viewcache.xml(片断):
- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <viewcache>
- <areas>
- <area>
- <id>1098</id>
- <parentId>1001</parentId>
- <areaType>province</areaType>
- <name>北京</name>
- <ordering>1867</ordering>
- </area>
- <area>
- <id>1099</id>
- <parentId>1098</parentId>
- <areaType>capital</areaType>
- <name>北京</name>
- <ordering>1868</ordering>
- <phoneArea>010</phoneArea>
- </area>
- <area>
- <id>4476</id>
- <parentId>1099</parentId>
- <areaType>county</areaType>
- <name>北京市朝阳区</name>
- <ordering>1869</ordering>
- <phoneArea>010</phoneArea>
- </area>
- <area>
- <id>4477</id>
- <parentId>1099</parentId>
- <areaType>county</areaType>
- <name>北京市崇文区</name>
- <ordering>1870</ordering>
- <phoneArea>010</phoneArea>
- </area>
- <area>
- <id>4478</id>
- <parentId>1099</parentId>
- <areaType>county</areaType>
- <name>北京市大兴区</name>
- <ordering>1871</ordering>
- <phoneArea>010</phoneArea>
- </area>
- </areas>
- </viewcache>
此xml文件分3层结构,分别为:
<viewcache>节点 其下包含1个<areas>节点
<areas>节点 其下包含多个<area>节点
<area>节点,其下包含各类信息节点 : 如:<id> 、<name>等。
咱们的操做目标是把area中的信息节点的内容提取出来。
把每一个<arrea>看作为一个对象,<area>中信息节点的内容为对象中的元素。
设定一个类Area.java 其内容以下:
- public class Area {
- private int id;
- private String name;
- private String areaType;
- private int parentId;
- private int ordering;
- private String zip;
-
- private String phoneArea;
-
- public int getOrdering() {
- return ordering;
- }
- public void setOrdering(int ordering) {
- this.ordering = ordering;
- }
- public String getAreaType() {
- return areaType;
- }
- public void setAreaType(String areaType) {
- this.areaType = areaType;
- }
- public int getId() {
- return id;
- }
- public void setId(int id) {
- this.id = id;
- }
- public String getName() {
- return name;
- }
- public void setName(String name) {
- this.name = name;
- }
- public int getParentId() {
- return parentId;
- }
- public void setParentId(int parentId) {
- this.parentId = parentId;
- }
-
- public String getZip() {
- return zip;
- }
-
- public void setZip(String zip) {
- this.zip = zip;
- }
-
- public String getPhoneArea() {
- return phoneArea;
- }
-
- public void setPhoneArea(String phoneArea) {
- this.phoneArea = phoneArea;
- }
- }
建立一个ViewCache类,用来保存解析后的全部对象:
- public class ViewCache {
- private List areaList = new ArrayList();
- public List getAreaList() {
- return areaList;
- }
- public void setAreaList(List areaList) {
- this.areaList = areaList;
- }
-
-
- public void addArea(Area area) {
- this.areaList.add(area);
- }
- }
建立一个类AreaDigester,对xml文件进行解析:
- public class AreaDigester {
-
- public ViewCache digester() throws Exception {
- Digester digester = new Digester();
- digester.setValidating(false);
- //addObjectCreate:当碰到第一个参数的节点时建立类型为第二个参数的对象并压入栈中
- digester.addObjectCreate("viewcache/areas", ViewCache.class);
-
- digester.addObjectCreate("viewcache/areas/area", Area.class);
-
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("viewcache/areas/area/id", "id");
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("viewcache/areas/area/parentId", "parentId");
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("viewcache/areas/area/name", "name");
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("viewcache/areas/area/areaType", "areaType");
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("viewcache/areas/area/ordering", "ordering");
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("viewcache/areas/area/zip", "zip");
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("viewcache/areas/area/phoneArea", "phoneArea");
-
- digester.addSetNext("viewcache/areas/area", "addArea");
-
- ViewCache vc = null;
- try {
- vc = (ViewCache) digester.parse("viewcache.xml");
- } catch (IOException e) {
- throw new Exception(e);
- } catch (SAXException e) {
- throw new Exception(e);
- }
- return vc;
- }
- }
调用AreaDigester的digester方法,便可把解析后的全部地址对象,存放在ViewCache的list中。
例子2:
要解析的xml文件books.xml以下:
- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <library name="alibaba图书馆">
- <book title ="thinking in java" author="xxx">
- <chapter>
- <no>第一章</no>
- <caption>第一章的标题</caption>
- </chapter>
- <chapter>
- <no>第二章</no>
- <caption>第二章的标题</caption>
- </chapter>
- </book>
- <book title="effective java" author="yyy">
- <chapter>
- <no>第一章</no>
- <caption>第一章的标题</caption>
- </chapter>
- </book>
- </library>
Library类以下:
- public class Library {
- private String name;
- private List<Book> bookList = new ArrayList<Book>();
-
- public String getName() {
- return name;
- }
-
- public void setName(String name) {
- this.name = name;
- }
-
- public List<Book> getBookList() {
- return bookList;
- }
-
- public void addBook(Book book) {
- bookList.add(book);
- }
- }
Book类以下:
- public class Book {
-
- private String title;
- private String author;
- private List<Chapter> chapters = new ArrayList<Chapter>();
-
-
- public void setBookInfo(String title, String author) {
- this.title = title;
- this.author = author;
- }
-
- public void addChapter(Chapter chapter) {
- this.chapters.add(chapter);
- }
-
- public String getTitle() {
- return title;
- }
-
- public void setTitle(String title) {
- this.title = title;
- }
-
- public String getAuthor() {
- return author;
- }
-
- public void setAuthor(String author) {
- this.author = author;
- }
-
- public List<Chapter> getChapters() {
- return chapters;
- }
-
- public void setChapters(List<Chapter> chapters) {
- this.chapters = chapters;
- }
- }
Chapter类以下:
- public class Chapter {
-
- private String no;
- private String caption;
-
- public String getNo() {
- return no;
- }
-
- public void setNo(String no) {
- this.no = no;
- }
-
- public String getCaption() {
- return caption;
- }
-
- public void setCaption(String caption) {
- this.caption = caption;
- }
- }
解析xml的类以下:
- public class MainTest {
-
-
- public static void main(String[] args) {
-
- Digester digester = new Digester();
-
- digester.setValidating(false);
-
- digester.addObjectCreate("library", Library.class);
-
- digester.addSetProperties("library");
-
-
-
-
- digester.addObjectCreate("library/book", Book.class);
-
-
- digester.addCallMethod("library/book", "setBookInfo", 2);
- digester.addCallParam("library/book", 0, "title");
- digester.addCallParam("library/book", 1, "author");
-
-
-
-
- digester.addObjectCreate("library/book/chapter", Chapter.class);
-
- digester.addBeanPropertySetter("library/book/chapter/no");
-
-
-
-
-
- digester.addCallMethod("library/book/chapter/caption", "setCaption", 0);
-
-
- digester.addSetNext("library/book/chapter", "addChapter");
-
-
- digester.addSetNext("library/book", "addBook");
-
-
- try {
-
- Library library = (Library) digester.parse(MainTest.class.getResourceAsStream("books.xml"));
- System.out.println(" 图书馆: " + library.getName());
- System.out.println(" 共藏书: " + library.getBookList().size() + " 本 ");
- System.out.println(" ***************************** ");
-
- for (Book book : library.getBookList()) {
- System.out.println(" 书名: " + book.getTitle() + " 做者: " + book.getAuthor());
- System.out.println(" ------------------------------ ");
-
- System.out.println(" 共 " + book.getChapters().size() + " 章 ");
- for (Chapter chapter : book.getChapters()) {
- System.out.println(chapter.getNo() + ": " + chapter.getCaption());
- }
- System.out.println(" ------------------------------ ");
- }
- } catch (IOException e) {
- e.printStackTrace();
- } catch (SAXException e) {
- e.printStackTrace();
- }
- }
- }
例子3:
Digester解析xml的规则,除了在java类中描述设置以外,还能够把解析规则放在xml文件中。以例子2中的代码为例,规则在books-rule.xml文件中,内容以下:(The DTD is distributed in the commons-digester.jar
. It can be found at org/apache/commons/digester/xmlrules/digester-rules.dtd,经过查看DTD文件,能够知道有哪些标签可使用
)
- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <!DOCTYPE digester-rules PUBLIC
- "-//Jakarta Apache //DTD digester-rules XML V1.0//EN"
- "digester-rules.dtd">
- <digester-rules>
- <object-create-rule pattern="library" classname="com.alibaba.chj.digester.Library" />
- <set-properties-rule pattern="library">
- <alias attr-name="name" prop-name="name" />
- </set-properties-rule>
- <pattern value="library/book">
- <object-create-rule classname="com.alibaba.chj.digester.Book" />
- <set-properties-rule />
- <pattern value="chapter">
- <object-create-rule classname="com.alibaba.chj.digester.Chapter" />
- <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="no" propertyname="no" />
- <bean-property-setter-rule pattern="caption" propertyname="caption" />
- <set-next-rule methodname="addChapter" />
- </pattern>
- <set-next-rule methodname="addBook" />
- </pattern>
- </digester-rules>
解析xml类的代码,修改成:
- public class MainTest {
-
-
- public static void main(String[] args) {
- try {
- Digester digester = DigesterLoader.createDigester(DigesterXmlRuleTest.class.getResource("books-rule.xml"));
- Library library = (Library) digester.parse(DigesterXmlRuleTest.class.getResourceAsStream("books.xml"));
- System.out.println(" 图书馆: " + library.getName());
- System.out.println(" 共藏书: " + library.getBookList().size() + " 本 ");
- System.out.println(" ***************************** ");
-
- for (Book book : library.getBookList()) {
- System.out.println(" 书名: " + book.getTitle() + " 做者: " + book.getAuthor());
- System.out.println(" ------------------------------ ");
-
- System.out.println(" 共 " + book.getChapters().size() + " 章 ");
- for (Chapter chapter : book.getChapters()) {
- System.out.println(chapter.getNo() + ": " + chapter.getCaption());
- }
- System.out.println(" ------------------------------ ");
- }
- } catch (IOException e) {
- e.printStackTrace();
- } catch (SAXException e) {
- e.printStackTrace();
- }
- }
- }
用于规则放在xml文件中,因此解析的类,显得更加简洁一些。