oracle.toplink.ox
Class XMLUnionField

java.lang.Object
  oracle.toplink.internal.helper.DatabaseField
      oracle.toplink.ox.XMLField
          oracle.toplink.ox.XMLUnionField

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

public class XMLUnionField
extends XMLField

Subclass of XMLField for fields that are mapped to unions. Maintains a list of schema types instead of just one single schema type. Schema types can be added using the addSchemaType api. XMLConstants has a list of useful constants including a list of QNames for built-in schema types that can be used when adding schema types.

When reading and writing an element that is mapped with an XMLUnionField, a conversion to each of the schema types on the field (in the order they are specified ) is tried until a conversion is successful. The java type to convert to is based on the list of schema type to java conversion pairs specified on the field. These conversion pairs can be modified using the addXMLConversion api.

Code Sample
In this example the age field could be a date or an int.
XMLUnionField field = new XMLUnionField("age/text()");
field.addSchemaType(XMLConstants.DATE_QNAME);
field.addSchemaType(XMLConstants.INT_QNAME)


See Also:

XMLField, XMLConstants, Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

XMLUnionField()
Constructs an XMLUnionField

XMLUnionField(java.lang.String xPath)
Constructs an XMLUnionField with the xpath set to the specified xPath

Method Summary

void	addSchemaType(javax.xml.namespace.QName value) Adds the new type value to the list of types
java.lang.Class	getJavaClass(javax.xml.namespace.QName qname) Return the class for a given qualified XML Schema type.
javax.xml.namespace.QName	getSchemaType() Return the first schema type in the list of schema types
java.util.ArrayList	getSchemaTypes() Return the list of schema types
void	setSchemaType(javax.xml.namespace.QName value) Adds the new type value to the list of types
void	setSchemaTypes(java.util.ArrayList value) Sets the schema types that this attribute can be mapped to Valid QName schema types can be found on oracle.toplink.ox.XMLConstants

Methods inherited from class oracle.toplink.ox.XMLField

addConversion, addJavaConversion, addXMLConversion, getLeafElementType, getNamespaceResolver, getXMLType, getXPath, isTypedTextField, removeConversion, removeJavaConversion, removeXMLConversion, setIsTypedTextField, setLeafElementType, setName, setNamespaceResolver, setUsesSingleNode, setXPath, usesSingleNode

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XMLUnionField

public XMLUnionField()

Constructs an XMLUnionField

XMLUnionField

public XMLUnionField(java.lang.String xPath)

Constructs an XMLUnionField with the xpath set to the specified xPath

Parameters:

xPath - The xpath expression for the field

Method Detail

getSchemaTypes

public java.util.ArrayList getSchemaTypes()

Return the list of schema types

Returns:

the list of types

setSchemaTypes

public void setSchemaTypes(java.util.ArrayList value)

Sets the schema types that this attribute can be mapped to Valid QName schema types can be found on oracle.toplink.ox.XMLConstants

Parameters:

value - An ArrayList containing the schema types.

See Also:

XMLConstants

addSchemaType

public void addSchemaType(javax.xml.namespace.QName value)

Adds the new type value to the list of types

Parameters:

value - QName to be added to the list of schema types

getSchemaType

public javax.xml.namespace.QName getSchemaType()

Return the first schema type in the list of schema types

Overrides:

getSchemaType in class XMLField

Returns:

the first item in the collection of schema types

setSchemaType

public void setSchemaType(javax.xml.namespace.QName value)

Adds the new type value to the list of types

Overrides:

setSchemaType in class XMLField

Parameters:

value - The value to be added to the list of schema types

getJavaClass

public java.lang.Class getJavaClass(javax.xml.namespace.QName qname)

Return the class for a given qualified XML Schema type. If the class is a primitive the corresponding wrapper class is returned

Overrides:

getJavaClass in class XMLField

Parameters:

qname - The qualified name of the XML Schema type to use as a key in the lookup

Returns:

The class associated with the specified schema type, if no corresponding match found returns null