Source for java.beans.XMLDecoder

   1: /* java.beans.XMLDecoder --
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  37: 
  38: 
  39: package java.beans;
  40: 
  41: import gnu.java.beans.DefaultExceptionListener;
  42: import gnu.java.beans.decoder.PersistenceParser;
  43: 
  44: import java.io.IOException;
  45: import java.io.InputStream;
  46: import java.util.Iterator;
  47: import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
  48: 
  49: /**
  50:  * The XMLDecoder reads XML data that is structured according to
  51:  * <a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/persistence3/javabeans.dtd">this</a> DTD
  52:  * and creates objects according to the content. Usually such data is generated using the
  53:  * {@link XMLEncoder} class.
  54:  * <p>
  55:  * An example XML document might look like this:
  56:  * <code>
  57:  * &lt;java&gt;
  58:  *     &lt;string&gt;Hello World&lt;/string&gt;
  59:  *     &lt;int&gt;200&lt;/int&gt;
  60:  * &lt;/java&gt;
  61:  * </code>
  62:  * <p>To read the <code>String</code> and the <code>Integer</code> instance the following can be used (assume
  63:  * the XML data can be obtained from the InputStream):</p>
  64:  * <code>
  65:  * XMLDecoder decoder = new XMLDecoder(inputStreamContainingXMLData);
  66:  * String message = (String) decoder.readObject();
  67:  * Integer number = (Integer) decoder.readObject();
  68:  * </code>
  69:  * <p>Besides this basic functionality the <code>XMLDecoder</code> has some more features that might come
  70:  * handy in certain situations:</p>
  71:  * <p>An owner object can be set using the <code>setOwner</code> method which can then be accessed when
  72:  * decoding. This feature is only useful if the XML data is aware of the owner object. Such data may
  73:  * look like this (assume that the owner object is a JFrame instance):</p>
  74:  * <code> 
  75:  * &lt;java&gt;
  76:  *     &lt;void method="getOwner"&gt;
  77:  *         &lt;void method="setVisible"&gt;
  78:  *             &lt;boolean&gt;true&lt;boolean&gt;
  79:  *         &lt;/void&gt;
  80:  *  &lt;/void&gt;
  81:  * &lt;/java&gt;
  82:  * </code>
  83:  * This accesses the <code>JFrame</code> and makes it visible using the <code>setVisible</code> method.
  84:  * <p>Please note that changing the owner <b>after</b> the having read the first object has no effect,
  85:  * because all object have been decoded then.</p>
  86:  * <p>If the <code>XMLDecoder</code> is created with no {@link ExceptionListener} instance a default one
  87:  * is used that prints an error message to <code>System.err</code> whenever a recoverable exception
  88:  * is thrown. Recovarable exceptions occur when the XML data cannot be interpreted correctly (e.g
  89:  * unknown classes or methods, invocation on null, ...). In general be very careful when the
  90:  * <code>XMLDecoder</code> provoked such exceptions because the resulting object(s) may be in an
  91:  * undesirable state.</p>
  92:  * <p>Note that changing the ExceptionListener instance after <code>readObject</code> has been called
  93:  * once has no effect because the decoding is completed then.</p>
  94:  * <p>At last one can provide a specific <code>ClassLoader</code> which is then used when <code>Class</code>
  95:  * objects are accessed. See {@link java.lang.Class#forName(String, boolean, ClassLoader)} for details
  96:  * on this.</p>
  97:  * <p>Note: If the <code>InputStream</code> instance given to any of the constructors is <code>null</code>
  98:  * the resulting <code>XMLDecoder</code> will be silently (without any exception) useless. Each call
  99:  * to <code>readObject</code> will return <code>null</code> and never throws an
 100:  * <code>ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException</code>.</p>
 101:  *  
 102:  * @author Robert Schuster
 103:  * @since 1.4
 104:  * @status updated to 1.5
 105:  */
 106: public class XMLDecoder
 107: {
 108:     private Object owner;
 109: 
 110:     private ExceptionListener exceptionListener;
 111: 
 112:     private InputStream inputStream;
 113: 
 114:     private boolean isStreamClosed;
 115: 
 116:     private ClassLoader classLoader;
 117: 
 118:     private Iterator iterator;
 119: 
 120:     /** Creates a XMLDecoder instance that parses the XML data of the given input stream.
 121:      * Using this constructor no special ClassLoader, a default ExceptionListener
 122:      * and no owner object is used.
 123:      * 
 124:      * @param in InputStream to read XML data from.
 125:      */
 126:     public XMLDecoder(InputStream in)
 127:     {
 128:         this(in, null);
 129:     }
 130: 
 131:     /** Creates a XMLDecoder instance that parses the XML data of the given input stream.
 132:      * Using this constructor no special ClassLoader and a default ExceptionListener
 133:      * is used.
 134:      * 
 135:      * @param in InputStream to read XML data from.
 136:      * @param owner Owner object which can be accessed and modified while parsing.
 137:      */
 138:     public XMLDecoder(InputStream in, Object owner)
 139:     {
 140:         this(in, owner, null);
 141:     }
 142: 
 143:     /** Creates a XMLDecoder instance that parses the XML data of the given input stream.
 144:      * If the ExceptionListener argument is null a default implementation is used.
 145:      * 
 146:      * @param in InputStream to read XML data from.
 147:      * @param owner Owner object which can be accessed and modified while parsing.
 148:      * @param exceptionListener ExceptionListener instance to which exception notifications are send.
 149:      */
 150:     public XMLDecoder(
 151:         InputStream in,
 152:         Object owner,
 153:         ExceptionListener exceptionListener)
 154:     {
 155:         this(
 156:             in,
 157:             owner,
 158:             exceptionListener,
 159:             Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
 160:     }
 161: 
 162:     /** Creates a XMLDecoder instance that parses the XML data of the given input stream.
 163:      * If the ExceptionListener argument is null a default implementation is used.
 164:      * 
 165:      * @param in InputStream to read XML data from.
 166:      * @param owner Owner object which can be accessed and modified while parsing.
 167:      * @param exceptionListener ExceptionListener instance to which exception notifications are send.
 168:      * @param cl ClassLoader instance that is used for calls to <code>Class.forName(String, boolean, ClassLoader)</code>
 169:      * @since 1.5
 170:      */
 171:     public XMLDecoder(
 172:         InputStream in,
 173:         Object owner,
 174:         ExceptionListener listener,
 175:         ClassLoader cl)
 176:     {
 177:         // initially here was a check for the validity of the InputStream argument but some
 178:         // great engineers decided that this API should silently discard this and behave rather
 179:         // odd: readObject will always return null ...
 180:         inputStream = in;
 181: 
 182:         setExceptionListener(listener);
 183: 
 184:         // validity of this object is checked in Class.forName() and therefore may be null
 185:         classLoader = cl;
 186: 
 187:         this.owner = owner;
 188:     }
 189: 
 190:     /** Closes the stream associated with this decoder. This should be done after having read all 
 191:      * decoded objects.
 192:      * <p>See the description of the {@link #readObject()} for the effect caused by <code>close</code>.</p> 
 193:      */
 194:     public void close()
 195:     {
 196:         if (isStreamClosed)
 197:         {
 198:             return;
 199:         }
 200: 
 201:         try
 202:         {
 203:             inputStream.close();
 204:             isStreamClosed = true;
 205:         }
 206:         catch (IOException e)
 207:         {
 208:             // bad style forced by original API design ... 
 209:         }
 210:     }
 211: 
 212:     /** Returns the ExceptionListener instance associated with this decoder.
 213:      * <p>See the description of {@link XMLDecoder} class for more information on the ExceptionListener.</p>
 214:      * 
 215:      * @return Current ExceptionListener of the decoder.
 216:      */
 217:     public ExceptionListener getExceptionListener()
 218:     {
 219:         return exceptionListener;
 220:     }
 221: 
 222:     /** Returns the owner object of the decoder. This method is usually called
 223:      * from within the parsed XML data.
 224:      * <p>See the description of {@link XMLDecoder} class for more information on the owner object.</p>
 225:      * 
 226:      * @return The owner object of this decoder.
 227:      */
 228:     public Object getOwner()
 229:     {
 230:         return owner;
 231:     }
 232: 
 233:     /** Returns the next available decoded object.
 234:      * <p>Note that the actual decoding takes place when the method is called for the first time.</p>
 235:      * <p>If the <code>close</code> method was already called a <code>NoSuchElementException</code>
 236:      * is thrown.</p>
 237:      * <p>If the InputStream instance used in the constructors was <code>null</code> this method
 238:      * will always return <code>null</code> itself.</p>
 239:      * 
 240:      * @return The next object in a sequence decoded from XML data.
 241:      * @throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException When no more objects are available.
 242:      */
 243:     public Object readObject() throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
 244:     {
 245:         // note: the RI does it this way ...
 246:         if(inputStream == null) {
 247:             return null;
 248:         }
 249:         
 250:         // note: the original API documentation says nothing on what to do
 251:         // when the stream was closed before readObject is called but it actually
 252:         // throws a NoSuchElementException - this behaviour is imitated here
 253:         if (isStreamClosed)
 254:         {
 255:             throw new NoSuchElementException("Cannot read any objects - XMLDecoder was already closed.");
 256:         }
 257: 
 258:         // creates the PersistenceParser (doing the parsing and decoding) and returns its
 259:         // Iterator on first invocation
 260:         if (iterator == null)
 261:         {
 262:             iterator =
 263:                 new PersistenceParser(
 264:                     inputStream,
 265:                     exceptionListener,
 266:                     classLoader,
 267:                     this)
 268:                     .iterator();
 269:         }
 270: 
 271:         // note: done according to the official documentation
 272:         if (!iterator.hasNext())
 273:         {
 274:             throw new ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException("No more objects available from this XMLDecoder.");
 275:         }
 276: 
 277:         // returns just the next object if there was no problem
 278:         return iterator.next();
 279:     }
 280: 
 281:     /** Sets the ExceptionListener instance to which notifications of exceptions are send
 282:      * while parsing the XML data.
 283:      * <p>See the description of {@link XMLDecoder} class for more information on the ExceptionListener.</p>
 284:      *
 285:      * @param listener
 286:      */
 287:     public void setExceptionListener(ExceptionListener listener)
 288:     {
 289:         // uses a default implementation when null 
 290:         if (listener == null)
 291:         {
 292:             listener = DefaultExceptionListener.INSTANCE;
 293:         }
 294:         exceptionListener = listener;
 295:     }
 296: 
 297:     /** Sets the owner object which can be accessed from the parsed XML data.
 298:      * <p>See the description of {@link XMLDecoder} class for more information on the owner object.</p>
 299:      * 
 300:      * @param newOwner
 301:      */
 302:     public void setOwner(Object newOwner)
 303:     {
 304:         owner = newOwner;
 305:     }
 306: 
 307: }