Package com.github.simy4.xpath

Class XmlBuilder

java.lang.Object

com.github.simy4.xpath.XmlBuilder

public class XmlBuilder
extends Object

XML model modifier that works via XPath expressions processing.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Alex Simkin

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
XmlBuilder()
XmlBuilder(NamespaceContext namespaceContext)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
<T> T	build(T xml)	Evaluates collected XPath effects on a given XML model object.
XmlBuilder	put(String xpath)	Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expression.
XmlBuilder	put(String xpath, Object value)	Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expression and then sets given value as text content to all evaluated nodes.
XmlBuilder	putAll(Iterable<String> xpaths)	Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expressions.
XmlBuilder	putAll(String... xpaths)	Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expressions.
XmlBuilder	putAll(Map<String,Object> xpathToValueMap)	Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expressions and then sets the associated value as text content to all evaluated nodes.
XmlBuilder	remove(String xpath)	Evaluates given XPath expression and detaches all of the resulting nodes.
XmlBuilder	removeAll(Iterable<String> xpaths)	Evaluates given XPath expressions and detaches all of the resulting nodes.
XmlBuilder	removeAll(String... xpaths)	Evaluates given XPath expressions and detaches all of the resulting nodes.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XmlBuilder

public XmlBuilder()

XmlBuilder

public XmlBuilder(NamespaceContext namespaceContext)

Method Detail

put

public XmlBuilder put(String xpath)
               throws XPathExpressionException

Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expression.

Parameters:

xpath - XPath to process

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

putAll(Iterable)

put

public XmlBuilder put(String xpath,
                      Object value)
               throws XPathExpressionException

Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expression and then sets given value as text content to all evaluated nodes.

Parameters:

xpath - XPath to process

value - value to set

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

putAll(Map)

putAll

public XmlBuilder putAll(String... xpaths)
                  throws XPathExpressionException

Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expressions.

Parameters:

xpaths - XPaths to process

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

putAll(Iterable)

putAll

public XmlBuilder putAll(Iterable<String> xpaths)
                  throws XPathExpressionException

Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expressions.

Parameters:

xpaths - XPaths to process

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

put(String), putAll(String...)

putAll

public XmlBuilder putAll(Map<String,Object> xpathToValueMap)
                  throws XPathExpressionException

Greedily creates all missing nodes that could be evaluated by given XPath expressions and then sets the associated value as text content to all evaluated nodes.

Parameters:

xpathToValueMap - XPath to values associations

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

put(String, Object)

remove

public XmlBuilder remove(String xpath)
                  throws XPathExpressionException

Evaluates given XPath expression and detaches all of the resulting nodes.

Parameters:

xpath - XPath to process

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

removeAll(Iterable)

removeAll

public XmlBuilder removeAll(String... xpaths)
                     throws XPathExpressionException

Evaluates given XPath expressions and detaches all of the resulting nodes.

Parameters:

xpaths - XPaths to process

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

removeAll(Iterable)

removeAll

public XmlBuilder removeAll(Iterable<String> xpaths)
                     throws XPathExpressionException

Evaluates given XPath expressions and detaches all of the resulting nodes.

Parameters:

xpaths - XPaths to process

Returns:

XmlBuilder instance

Throws:

XPathExpressionException - if xpath cannot be parsed

See Also:

remove(String), removeAll(String...)

build

public <T> T build(T xml)
            throws XmlBuilderException

Evaluates collected XPath effects on a given XML model object.

Type Parameters:

T - XML model type

Parameters:

xml - XML to process

Returns:

processing result

Throws:

XmlBuilderException - if XML model modification failed