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Recursive call in AdaptaterRegistry ?

Hello all,

	I'm playing with hivemind 1.1-alpha AdapterRegistry and now that I got
some simple example working, I'm asking myself a question I can't find
an answer :)
	Is there a way to do- kind of - recursion with the AdaptaterRegistry? I
explain myself: suppose I want to create an XmlAdapter service with this
interface :

public interface XmlAdapter {
	toXml (Object o);
}

I could define then :

public class StringAdapter {
	public String toXml (Object o) {
		String value = (String) o;
		return value.trim();
	}
}

This works fine for "converting" a String to XML.
But now suppose I got this object to adapt :

public class Name {
	private String firstName;
	private String lastName;
	// + getters & setters
}

A great trick would be to be able to do something like this :

public class NameAdapter {
	public String toXml (Object o) {
		Name value = (Name) o;
		String ret = new String("<Name><FirstName>");

		// Here do some trick to get a StringAdapter from the registry

		ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getFirstName()));
		ret.append("</FirstName><LastName>");
		ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getLastName()));
		ret.append("</LastName></Name>");
		return ret;
	}
}

Of course I tried to inject the service in
itself but this leads only to nullpointerexception ( well, I expected
something like this anyway...).

So, is there a way to do this ? Or should I try another way ? ( with
the new Chain service maybe ? )

thanks in advance for any help/pointers,

Olivier. 


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Re: Recursive call in AdaptaterRegistry [Solved]

Posted by Olivier Bourgeois <ze...@wanadoo.fr>.
Thanks a lot !

I tried again today, works like a charm.

For the little story, in fact I was trying to do something like this :

<module id="test" version="1.0.0">
    <configuration-point id="HtmlAdapters" 
        schema-id="hivemind.lib.AdapterRegistry"/>

    <contribution configuration-id="HtmlAdapters">
        <adapter class="java.lang.String" 
	object="instance:test..StringAdapter"/>   
       <adapter class="java.lang.Integer"
	object="instance:test.IntegerAdapter"/>  
   </contribution>
   <service-point id="HtmlAdapter" 
        interface="test.IHtmlAdapter">
        <invoke-factory
	service-id="hivemind.lib.AdapterRegistryFactory">
	<construct configuration-id="HtmlAdapters" >
		<service>HtmlAdapter</service>
	</construct>
       </invoke-factory>
  </service-point>
</module>

which cannot work.

I didn't knew I could use object="service: ...." in the contribution
point and put each adapter in a service point. (BTW I found out that a
good sample for adapters is the new Tapestry AssetFactories).
	This is radically changing the whole thing and making the
solution simple but powerfull ;)


Olivier.


Le Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:30:52 -0500
Howard Lewis Ship <hl...@gmail.com> a écrit:

> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:28:16 +0100, Olivier Bourgeois
> <ze...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick answer Howard,
> > 
> >         I tried again to inject the service into itself, but I
> >         stumbled onto
> > two problems again, I solved only the first one :
> > 
> >         - first you were right there was an error in the beginning
> >         of
> > the console that I did not saw. It said that it was impossible to
> > instantiate my adapters.
> 
> There's a "brittle" error handler that will throw a fatal exception at
> the first error, rather  than just logging it.  It may be a good
> practice to start using that.
> 
> I prefer log-and-continue (the default), since I may be able to catch
> and fix multiple errors.
> 
> 
> 
> >         I finally found out that it was because I was missing a
> >         constructor
> > without parameters ( I was using constructor only injection ) in my
> > adapter. I find this a little bit odd since I thought Java was
> > always providing one constrcutor by default even if not explicitly
> > written.
> 
> Java compiler creates a public no-args constructor for you if and only
> if you don't
> define a constructor  yourself.  It's syntactic sugar.
> 
> 
> > 
> >         - second problem now that the adapters are instantiated
> >         again, the
> > service is still not injected in itself. I tried all the ways I am
> > aware of  (adding also getter/setter in my adapter) :
> >                 -
> >                 <construct><service>XmlAdapter</service></construct>
> >                 - <construct service-id-property="">... -
> >                 <construct><set-service
> >                 property=""service-id=""/>...
> > 
> > But none of them is working : I got an "element not allowed here"
> > error in the console. So I had a look at the hivemodule.xml in the
> > hivemind-lib.jar, and for the service-point AdapterRegistryFactory
> > element the schema is as follow:
> > 
> > <parameters-schema>
> >   <element name="construct">
> >         <attribute name="configuration-id"
> >         translator="configuration" required="true">          A
> >         configuration utilizing the
> > hivemind.lib.AdapterRegistry schema, which          defines the
> > classes and matching adapters.        </attribute>
> >      <conversion
> > class="org.apache.hivemind.lib.adapter.AdapterRegistryParameter">
> >     <map attribute="configuration-id" property="contributions"/>
> >     </conversion>
> >   </element>
> > </parameters-schema>
> > 
> > So I suppose that means I can't because the schema definition for
> > AdaptaterRegistry is a subset of BuilderFactory's one.
> > 
> > Or am I missing some other way to do this ?
> > 
> 
> I think you are missing something here.  You have a specific adapter,
> implemented as a service, that needs to  know about the adapter
> registry which it is registered into.
> 
> Therefore, you should inject the adapter registry service into the
> adapter.  So if AR is the service-id,  your service-point shoudl look
> like:
> 
> <service-point id="MyAdaptor" interface="....">
>   <invoke-factory>
>     <construct class="...MyAdaptorImpl".>
>       <set-service property="registry" service-id="AR"/>
>     </construct>
>   </invoke-factory>
> </service-point>
> 
> Or the correct constructor-inject variation thereof.


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Re: Recursive call in AdaptaterRegistry ?

Posted by Howard Lewis Ship <hl...@gmail.com>.
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:28:16 +0100, Olivier Bourgeois <ze...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick answer Howard,
> 
>         I tried again to inject the service into itself, but I stumbled onto
> two problems again, I solved only the first one :
> 
>         - first you were right there was an error in the beginning of
> the console that I did not saw. It said that it was impossible to
> instantiate my adapters.

There's a "brittle" error handler that will throw a fatal exception at
the first error, rather  than just logging it.  It may be a good
practice to start using that.

I prefer log-and-continue (the default), since I may be able to catch
and fix multiple errors.



>         I finally found out that it was because I was missing a constructor
> without parameters ( I was using constructor only injection ) in my
> adapter. I find this a little bit odd since I thought Java was always
> providing one constrcutor by default even if not explicitly written.

Java compiler creates a public no-args constructor for you if and only
if you don't
define a constructor  yourself.  It's syntactic sugar.


> 
>         - second problem now that the adapters are instantiated again, the
> service is still not injected in itself. I tried all the ways I am aware
> of  (adding also getter/setter in my adapter) :
>                 - <construct><service>XmlAdapter</service></construct>
>                 - <construct service-id-property="">...
>                 - <construct><set-service property=""service-id=""/>...
> 
> But none of them is working : I got an "element not allowed here" error
> in the console. So I had a look at the hivemodule.xml in the
> hivemind-lib.jar, and for the service-point AdapterRegistryFactory
> element the schema is as follow:
> 
> <parameters-schema>
>   <element name="construct">
>         <attribute name="configuration-id" translator="configuration"
>         required="true">          A configuration utilizing the
> hivemind.lib.AdapterRegistry schema, which          defines the classes
> and matching adapters.        </attribute>
>      <conversion
> class="org.apache.hivemind.lib.adapter.AdapterRegistryParameter">
>     <map attribute="configuration-id" property="contributions"/>
>     </conversion>
>   </element>
> </parameters-schema>
> 
> So I suppose that means I can't because the schema definition for
> AdaptaterRegistry is a subset of BuilderFactory's one.
> 
> Or am I missing some other way to do this ?
> 

I think you are missing something here.  You have a specific adapter,
implemented as a service, that needs to  know about the adapter
registry which it is registered into.

Therefore, you should inject the adapter registry service into the
adapter.  So if AR is the service-id,  your service-point shoudl look
like:

<service-point id="MyAdaptor" interface="....">
  <invoke-factory>
    <construct class="...MyAdaptorImpl".>
      <set-service property="registry" service-id="AR"/>
    </construct>
  </invoke-factory>
</service-point>

Or the correct constructor-inject variation thereof.




> Olivier.
> 
> Le Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:52:24 -0500
> Howard Lewis Ship <hl...@gmail.com> a écrit:
> 
> > You should be able to inject a service into itself. It's a proxy that
> > gets injected. Make sure  there weren't any errors in the console.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:35:32 +0100, Olivier Bourgeois
> > <ze...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > >         I'm playing with hivemind 1.1-alpha AdapterRegistry and now
> > >         that I got
> > > some simple example working, I'm asking myself a question I can't
> > > find an answer :)
> > >         Is there a way to do- kind of - recursion with the
> > >         AdaptaterRegistry? I
> > > explain myself: suppose I want to create an XmlAdapter service with
> > > this interface :
> > >
> > > public interface XmlAdapter {
> > >         toXml (Object o);
> > > }
> > >
> > > I could define then :
> > >
> > > public class StringAdapter {
> > >         public String toXml (Object o) {
> > >                 String value = (String) o;
> > >                 return value.trim();
> > >         }
> > > }
> > >
> > > This works fine for "converting" a String to XML.
> > > But now suppose I got this object to adapt :
> > >
> > > public class Name {
> > >         private String firstName;
> > >         private String lastName;
> > >         // + getters & setters
> > > }
> > >
> > > A great trick would be to be able to do something like this :
> > >
> > > public class NameAdapter {
> > >         public String toXml (Object o) {
> > >                 Name value = (Name) o;
> > >                 String ret = new String("<Name><FirstName>");
> > >
> > >                 // Here do some trick to get a StringAdapter from
> > >                 the registry
> > >
> > >                 ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getFirstName()
> > >                 )); ret.append("</FirstName><LastName>");
> > >                 ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getLastName())
> > >                 ); ret.append("</LastName></Name>");
> > >                 return ret;
> > >         }
> > > }
> > >
> > > Of course I tried to inject the service in
> > > itself but this leads only to nullpointerexception ( well, I
> > > expected something like this anyway...).
> > >
> > > So, is there a way to do this ? Or should I try another way ? ( with
> > > the new Chain service maybe ? )
> > >
> > > thanks in advance for any help/pointers,
> > >
> > > Olivier.
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > > commands, e-mail: hivemind-user-help@jakarta.apache.org
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Howard M. Lewis Ship
> > Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant
> > Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
> > Creator, Jakarta HiveMind
> >
> > Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support
> > and project work.  http://howardlewisship.com
> >
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> >
> >
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Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
Creator, Jakarta HiveMind

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Re: Recursive call in AdaptaterRegistry ?

Posted by Olivier Bourgeois <ze...@wanadoo.fr>.
Thanks for the quick answer Howard,

	I tried again to inject the service into itself, but I stumbled onto
two problems again, I solved only the first one :

	- first you were right there was an error in the beginning of
the console that I did not saw. It said that it was impossible to
instantiate my adapters. 
	I finally found out that it was because I was missing a constructor
without parameters ( I was using constructor only injection ) in my
adapter. I find this a little bit odd since I thought Java was always
providing one constrcutor by default even if not explicitly written.

	- second problem now that the adapters are instantiated again, the
service is still not injected in itself. I tried all the ways I am aware
of  (adding also getter/setter in my adapter) :	
		- <construct><service>XmlAdapter</service></construct>
		- <construct service-id-property="">...
		- <construct><set-service property=""service-id=""/>...

But none of them is working : I got an "element not allowed here" error
in the console. So I had a look at the hivemodule.xml in the
hivemind-lib.jar, and for the service-point AdapterRegistryFactory
element the schema is as follow:

<parameters-schema>
  <element name="construct">
        <attribute name="configuration-id" translator="configuration"
	required="true">          A configuration utilizing the
hivemind.lib.AdapterRegistry schema, which          defines the classes
and matching adapters.        </attribute>
     <conversion
class="org.apache.hivemind.lib.adapter.AdapterRegistryParameter">       
    <map attribute="configuration-id" property="contributions"/>       
    </conversion>
  </element>
</parameters-schema>

So I suppose that means I can't because the schema definition for
AdaptaterRegistry is a subset of BuilderFactory's one.

Or am I missing some other way to do this ?


Olivier.


Le Sat, 5 Feb 2005 15:52:24 -0500
Howard Lewis Ship <hl...@gmail.com> a écrit:

> You should be able to inject a service into itself. It's a proxy that
> gets injected. Make sure  there weren't any errors in the console.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:35:32 +0100, Olivier Bourgeois
> <ze...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> >         I'm playing with hivemind 1.1-alpha AdapterRegistry and now
> >         that I got
> > some simple example working, I'm asking myself a question I can't
> > find an answer :)
> >         Is there a way to do- kind of - recursion with the
> >         AdaptaterRegistry? I
> > explain myself: suppose I want to create an XmlAdapter service with
> > this interface :
> > 
> > public interface XmlAdapter {
> >         toXml (Object o);
> > }
> > 
> > I could define then :
> > 
> > public class StringAdapter {
> >         public String toXml (Object o) {
> >                 String value = (String) o;
> >                 return value.trim();
> >         }
> > }
> > 
> > This works fine for "converting" a String to XML.
> > But now suppose I got this object to adapt :
> > 
> > public class Name {
> >         private String firstName;
> >         private String lastName;
> >         // + getters & setters
> > }
> > 
> > A great trick would be to be able to do something like this :
> > 
> > public class NameAdapter {
> >         public String toXml (Object o) {
> >                 Name value = (Name) o;
> >                 String ret = new String("<Name><FirstName>");
> > 
> >                 // Here do some trick to get a StringAdapter from
> >                 the registry
> > 
> >                 ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getFirstName()
> >                 )); ret.append("</FirstName><LastName>");
> >                 ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getLastName())
> >                 ); ret.append("</LastName></Name>");
> >                 return ret;
> >         }
> > }
> > 
> > Of course I tried to inject the service in
> > itself but this leads only to nullpointerexception ( well, I
> > expected something like this anyway...).
> > 
> > So, is there a way to do this ? Or should I try another way ? ( with
> > the new Chain service maybe ? )
> > 
> > thanks in advance for any help/pointers,
> > 
> > Olivier.
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:
> > hivemind-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional
> > commands, e-mail: hivemind-user-help@jakarta.apache.org
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Howard M. Lewis Ship
> Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant
> Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
> Creator, Jakarta HiveMind
> 
> Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support
> and project work.  http://howardlewisship.com
> 
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Re: Recursive call in AdaptaterRegistry ?

Posted by Howard Lewis Ship <hl...@gmail.com>.
You should be able to inject a service into itself. It's a proxy that
gets injected. Make sure  there weren't any errors in the console.


On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:35:32 +0100, Olivier Bourgeois <ze...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>         I'm playing with hivemind 1.1-alpha AdapterRegistry and now that I got
> some simple example working, I'm asking myself a question I can't find
> an answer :)
>         Is there a way to do- kind of - recursion with the AdaptaterRegistry? I
> explain myself: suppose I want to create an XmlAdapter service with this
> interface :
> 
> public interface XmlAdapter {
>         toXml (Object o);
> }
> 
> I could define then :
> 
> public class StringAdapter {
>         public String toXml (Object o) {
>                 String value = (String) o;
>                 return value.trim();
>         }
> }
> 
> This works fine for "converting" a String to XML.
> But now suppose I got this object to adapt :
> 
> public class Name {
>         private String firstName;
>         private String lastName;
>         // + getters & setters
> }
> 
> A great trick would be to be able to do something like this :
> 
> public class NameAdapter {
>         public String toXml (Object o) {
>                 Name value = (Name) o;
>                 String ret = new String("<Name><FirstName>");
> 
>                 // Here do some trick to get a StringAdapter from the registry
> 
>                 ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getFirstName()));
>                 ret.append("</FirstName><LastName>");
>                 ret.append(stringAdapter.toXml(value.getLastName()));
>                 ret.append("</LastName></Name>");
>                 return ret;
>         }
> }
> 
> Of course I tried to inject the service in
> itself but this leads only to nullpointerexception ( well, I expected
> something like this anyway...).
> 
> So, is there a way to do this ? Or should I try another way ? ( with
> the new Chain service maybe ? )
> 
> thanks in advance for any help/pointers,
> 
> Olivier.
> 
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Creator, Jakarta Tapestry
Creator, Jakarta HiveMind

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and project work.  http://howardlewisship.com

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