一般用来读取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,而且如果修改了xml文件的格式,代码也要做大幅度的改动。而使用Apache Jakarta的Digester,解析XML文件非常方便且不需要过多的关心底层的具体解析过程。Digester本来仅仅是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,这个工具理应具有更广泛的用途,所以很快它就在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,通过调用预定义的规则操作对象栈,将XML文件转换为Java对象。
工作原理如下: Digester底层采用SAX(Simple API for XML)析XML文件,所以很自然的,对象转换由"事件"驱动,在遍历每个节点时,检查是否有匹配模式,如果有,则执行规则定义的操作,比如创建特定的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,而相关操作由规则(rule)定义。
如下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(片段):
- <?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,其下包含各种信息节点 : 如:<id> 、<name>等。
我们的操作目标是把area中的信息节点的内容提取出来。
把每个<arrea>看做为一个对象,<area>中信息节点的内容为对象中的元素。
设定一个类Area.java 其内容如下:
- 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;
- }
- }
创建一个ViewCache类,用来保存解析后的所有对象:
- 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);
- }
- }
创建一个类AreaDigester,对xml文件进行解析:
- public class AreaDigester {
-
- public ViewCache digester() throws Exception {
- Digester digester = new Digester();
- digester.setValidating(false);
- 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,即可把解析后的所有地址对象,存放在ViewCache的list中。
例子2:
要解析的xml文件books.xml如下:
- <?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类如下:
- 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类如下:
- 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类如下:
- 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的类如下:
- 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() + " 作者: " + 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类中描述设置之外,还可以把解析规则放在xml文件中。以例子2中的代码为例,规则在books-rule.xml文件中,内容如下:(The DTD is distributed in the commons-digester.jar
. It can be found at org/apache/commons/digester/xmlrules/digester-rules.dtd,通过查看DTD文件,可以知道有哪些标签可以使用
)
- <?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,修改为:
- 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() + " 作者: " + 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,所以解析的类,显得更加简洁一些。