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Posted to user@commons.apache.org by Moein Enayati <mo...@gmail.com> on 2011/02/16 10:22:26 UTC
[Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML
resource and use it later ?
Dear all
Hi
Till now ,whenever I want to use Apache.Commons.Configuration API with an
XML file , I’ve written down myBeans definition manually in XML resource.
But now I have a new demand to use complex beans with complex property types
and the ability to save them (their signature) automatically in the XML
resource.
I’ve just find apache.commons.betwixt. BeanWriter() having the ability , but
it seems configuration-API has its own signature.
Is there any way in Apache.commons.configuration to save my beans in an xml
file which is compatible with configuration ?
Thanks / Moein
Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML
resource and use it later ?
Posted by Mike Power <mp...@alumni.calpoly.edu>.
On 02/16/2011 02:32 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Hi Moein,
>
> Moein Enayati wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>> Hi
>>
>>
>> Till now ,whenever I want to use Apache.Commons.Configuration API with an
>> XML file , I’ve written down myBeans definition manually in XML resource.
>>
>> But now I have a new demand to use complex beans with complex property
>> types and the ability to save them (their signature) automatically in the
>> XML resource.
>>
>>
>> I’ve just find apache.commons.betwixt. BeanWriter() having the ability ,
>> but it seems configuration-API has its own signature.
>>
>>
>> Is there any way in Apache.commons.configuration to save my beans in an
>> xml file which is compatible with configuration ?
> This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're
> looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and
> restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like
> XStream.
>
> - Jörg
Just sharing an observation I have made while researching my
configuration needs. I ended up looking in commons configuration for a
means of loading a configuration from XML into a Configuration object
and then loading from that Configuration into a bean. I still wanted
interpolation and combined configuration. I did not find that in
Configuration so I decided that I would still use Configuration and not
design and implement that particular solution.
My use case, I am writing an application, maven plugin, ant plugin, all
of which basically does the same thing. Both ant and maven have a a
configuration api that represents a bean as XML. So that covered both
ant and maven, but I still needed a way to configure the application. I
thought it would be nice to leverage the same concept that I used for
maven and ant. The idea being that maven, ant, and the application
would load their configuration into the same bean object. The XML
between the three may not be syntactically the same, but it would be
familiar.
I find the configuration api to be useful as it is, and I am perfectly
happy adding an additional library for functionality when it is out of
scope for configuration.
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Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML
resource and use it later ?
Posted by Oliver Heger <ol...@oliver-heger.de>.
Am 16.02.2011 11:50, schrieb Moein Enayati:
> Dear Jörg
>
> You're ok!
>
> But have a look at this part of code :
>
> *BeanDeclaration bDecl = new XMLBeanDeclaration(xmlConfig,
> "myBeanNameRootAddress");*
>
> *MyBean myBean = (MyBean ) BeanHelper.createBean(bDecl);*
>
>
> Here we have the ability to load a predefined bean out of an XML file. So I
> thought it must be a simple way to save that bean into the same file !
>
>
> You know , I’m worry about using another library to save myBean into the
> file and I can’t load its XMLDeclaration later on.
>
>
>
> Am I right?
>
>
This support for loading beans in Commons Configuration is more like in
the Spring framework (but in a very limited form). There you also define
beans in configuration files which you can load at runtime, but you do
not have the possibility to store beans and update your configuration files.
As Jörg pointed out, you are really after a XML bean mapper. Commons
Configuration does not support this use case, at least not in a
convenient way.
Sorry
Oliver
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jörg Schaible
> <jo...@scalaris.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Moein,
>> *
>> Moein Enayati wrote:
>> ..........*
>>
>> This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're
>> looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and
>> restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like
>> XStream.
>>
>> - Jörg
>>
>>
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Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML
resource and use it later ?
Posted by Moein Enayati <mo...@gmail.com>.
Dear Jörg
You're ok!
But have a look at this part of code :
*BeanDeclaration bDecl = new XMLBeanDeclaration(xmlConfig,
"myBeanNameRootAddress");*
*MyBean myBean = (MyBean ) BeanHelper.createBean(bDecl);*
Here we have the ability to load a predefined bean out of an XML file. So I
thought it must be a simple way to save that bean into the same file !
You know , I’m worry about using another library to save myBean into the
file and I can’t load its XMLDeclaration later on.
Am I right?
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Jörg Schaible
<jo...@scalaris.com>wrote:
> Hi Moein,
> *
> Moein Enayati wrote:
> ..........*
>
> This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're
> looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and
> restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like
> XStream.
>
> - Jörg
>
>
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Re: [Configuration] Is there any way to save my complex bean in XML resource and use it later ?
Posted by Jörg Schaible <jo...@scalaris.com>.
Hi Moein,
Moein Enayati wrote:
> Dear all
> Hi
>
>
> Till now ,whenever I want to use Apache.Commons.Configuration API with an
> XML file , I’ve written down myBeans definition manually in XML resource.
>
> But now I have a new demand to use complex beans with complex property
> types and the ability to save them (their signature) automatically in the
> XML resource.
>
>
> I’ve just find apache.commons.betwixt. BeanWriter() having the ability ,
> but it seems configuration-API has its own signature.
>
>
> Is there any way in Apache.commons.configuration to save my beans in an
> xml file which is compatible with configuration ?
This is definitely out of scope for commons configuration. What you're
looking for is a persistence layer that can turn a Java object into XML and
restore it later. This is a classical task for JAXB or something like
XStream.
- Jörg
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