oracle.toplink.ox.mappings
Class XMLTransformationMapping

java.lang.Object
  oracle.toplink.mappings.DatabaseMapping
      oracle.toplink.mappings.foundation.AbstractTransformationMapping
          oracle.toplink.ox.mappings.XMLTransformationMapping

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, oracle.toplink.ox.mappings.XMLMapping

public class XMLTransformationMapping
extends AbstractTransformationMapping
implements oracle.toplink.ox.mappings.XMLMapping

Transformation XML mappings are used to create a custom mapping where one or more XML nodes can be used to create the object to be stored in a Java class's attribute. To handle the custom requirements at marshal (write) and unmarshall (read) time, a transformation mapping takes instances of oracle.toplink.mappings.transformers (such as AttributeTransformer and FieldTransformer), providing a non-intrusive solution that avoids the need for domain objects to implement any 'special' interfaces.

Setting the XPath: TopLink XML mappings make use of XPath statements to find the relevant data in an XML document. The XPath statement is relative to the context node specified in the descriptor. The XPath may contain node type, path, and positional information. The XPath is specified on the field transformer that is set on the mapping. The XPath is set as the first parameter of the addFieldTransformer method.

The following XPath statements may be used to specify the location of XML data relating to an object's name attribute:

XPath	Description
@name	The "@" character indicates that the node is an attribute.
text()	"text()" indicates that the node is a text node. In this case the name value in the text node belongs to the context node.
full-name/text()	The name information is stored in the text node of the full-name element.
personal-info/name/text()	The XPath statement may be used to specify any valid path.
name[2]/text()	The XPath statement may contain positional information. In this case the name information is stored in the text node of the second occurrence of the name element.

Mapping a transformation: A transformer can be configured to perform both the XML instance-to-Java attribute transformation at unmarshall time (via attribute transformer) and the Java attribute-to-XML instance transformation at marshal time (via field transformer).

XML Schema
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:element name="employee" type="employee-type"/>
<xsd:complexType name="employee-type">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="normal-hours" type="normal-hours-type"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="normal-hours-type">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="start-time" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="end-time" type="xsd:string"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>


Code Sample
XMLTransformationMapping mapping = new XMLTransformationMapping();
mapping.setAttributeName("normalHours");
mapping.setAttributeTransformerClassName("oracle.toplink.testing.ox.mappings.transformation.NormalHoursAttributeTransformer");
mapping.addFieldTransformer("normal-hours/start-time/text()", new StartTimeTransformer());
mapping.addFieldTransformer("normal-hours/end-time/text()", new EndTimeTransformer()");


More Information: For more information about using the XML Transformation Mapping, see the "Understanding XML Mappings" chapter of the Oracle TopLink Developer's Guide.

Since:

Oracle TopLink 10g Release 2 (10.1.3)

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

XMLTransformationMapping()

Method Summary

void	addFieldTransformation(java.lang.String fieldName, java.lang.String methodName) Add the name of field and the name of the method that returns the value to be placed in said field when the object is written to the database.
void	addFieldTransformer(java.lang.String fieldName, FieldTransformer transformer) Add the name of field and the transformer that returns the value to be placed in the field when the object is written to the database.

Methods inherited from class oracle.toplink.mappings.foundation.AbstractTransformationMapping

addFieldTransformation, addFieldTransformer, dontUseIndirection, getAttributeMethodName, isMutable, setAttributeMethodName, setAttributeTransformation, setAttributeTransformer, setIndirectionPolicy, setIsMutable, useBasicIndirection, useContainerIndirection, useIndirection, usesIndirection

Methods inherited from class oracle.toplink.mappings.DatabaseMapping

getAttributeAccessor, getAttributeClassification, getAttributeName, getGetMethodName, getProperty, getReferenceDescriptor, getSetMethodName, isLazy, isOptional, isUsingMethodAccess, readOnly, readWrite, setAttributeAccessor, setAttributeName, setGetMethodName, setIsLazy, setIsOptional, setIsReadOnly, setProperty, setSetMethodName, setWeight, simpleAddToCollectionChangeRecord, simpleRemoveFromCollectionChangeRecord

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XMLTransformationMapping

public XMLTransformationMapping()

Method Detail

addFieldTransformer

public void addFieldTransformer(java.lang.String fieldName,
                                FieldTransformer transformer)

Description copied from class: oracle.toplink.mappings.foundation.AbstractTransformationMapping

Add the name of field and the transformer that returns the value to be placed in the field when the object is written to the database.

Overrides:

addFieldTransformer in class AbstractTransformationMapping

addFieldTransformation

public void addFieldTransformation(java.lang.String fieldName,
                                   java.lang.String methodName)

Description copied from class: oracle.toplink.mappings.foundation.AbstractTransformationMapping

Add the name of field and the name of the method that returns the value to be placed in said field when the object is written to the database. The method may take zero arguments, or it may take a single argument of type oracle.toplink.sessions.Session.

Overrides:

addFieldTransformation in class AbstractTransformationMapping