[jira] Resolved: (JXPATH-86) Children returned instead of self for arrays when using . selector

["Matt Benson (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JXPATH-86?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Matt Benson resolved JXPATH-86.
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    Resolution: Invalid

This comes down to another misunderstanding wrt the JXPath XPath implementation.  The JXPath users guide has the following to say, under "Object Graph Traversal"->"Containers":

    For example, if property "foo" of the context node has a Container as its value, the XPath "foo" will produce the contents of that Container, not the container itself.

Remember that JXPath functions by "pretending" a Java object graph is an XML document.  Think of this implementation decision as a conscious choice of:
<object>
  <foo />
  <foo />
</object>

over

<object>
  <foo>
    <foo_child />
    <foo_child />
  </foo>
</object>
.

This seems to have been a more sensible solution than trying to autogenerate an element name as has been done in the second case.  Finally, as JXPath is headed for a 1.3 release in the near future, I urge you to conduct any further testing against SVN HEAD so that you might have an opportunity to review the codebase planned for release for consistency with what I have said here, and with the users' guide, and to be sure that any further examples you submit are fully reproducible.  It might be good to conduct discussions on the commons-user mailing list (preface subjects with [jxpath]) until the determination has been made of items' bug status.

br,
Matt

> Children returned instead of self for arrays when using . selector
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JXPATH-86
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JXPATH-86
>             Project: Commons JXPath
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.2 Final
>            Reporter: Adam Crume
>
> The . selector should always return the context node, and the * selector should return child elements.  However, this doesn't work for arrays:
> JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(new HashMap());
> context.setValue("array", new String[] {"one", "two", "three"});
> context.setValue("array2", new String[][] { {"a", "b"}, {"c", "d"}});
> context.setValue("person", new Person("Bob", 25));
> String[] paths = {"/array", "/array/.", "/array/*", "/person", "/person/.", "/person/*"};
> for(int i = 0; i < paths.length; i++) {
> 	Pointer pointer = context.getPointer(paths[i]);
> 	System.out.println(pointer.asPath());
> 	Object value = context.getValue(paths[i]);
> 	System.out.println(value);
> 	System.out.println();
> }
> This produces the following output:
> /.[@name='array']
> [Ljava.lang.String;@59b659b6
> /.[@name='array'][1]
> one
> /.[@name='array'][1]/bytes[1]
> 111
> /.[@name='person']
> net.cts.jxpathserializer.Person@760076
> /.[@name='person']
> net.cts.jxpathserializer.Person@760076
> /.[@name='person']/age
> 25

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