[Chain] re: Problem with CatalogFactory - getCatalog() returns null

[Chris Clarke <Ch...@talis.com>]

Hi all,

I'm having an issue with getting a Catalog from the CatalogFactory with Commons Chain. I've defined my own XML configuration file as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<chains>
  <chain name="logon">
      <command name="CheckCredentials" className="com.talis.springbok.jsfspike.manager.logon.commands.CheckCredentials"/>
      <command name="RetrievePermissions" className="com.talis.springbok.jsfspike.manager.logon.commands.RetrievePermissions"/>
  </chain>
</chains>

I have some initialisation code that is in a ContextListener which is called when Tomcat starts up the web app:

public class ChainListener implements ServletContextListener
{
    public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent servletContextEvent)
    {
        String resource = servletContextEvent.getServletContext().getInitParameter("org.apache.commons.chain.CONFIG_CLASS_RESOURCE");
        try
        {
            ChainHelper ch = new ChainHelper();
            ch.init(resource);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();  //To change body of catch statement use File | Settings | File Templates.
        }
    }
}

which calls....

01    public void init(String resource) throws Exception
02    {
03       CatalogFactory cf = CatalogFactoryBase.getInstance();
04        ConfigParser parser = new ConfigParser();
05        parser.parse(this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(resource));
06        catalog = cf.getCatalog();
07    }

When I debug the code above with breakpoints:

line 05: The resource is correctly retrieved and the parser parses it without throwing an Exception. If I look into the ConfigParser object after this line has executed I can see that it has loaded in the class names of the commands defined in my XML file

line 06: This returns null! If I look inside the context factory it has a list of catalogs of size zero so the parser hasn't initialised the catalog into the factory!

Is there anything I am missing from my code and/or XML config file?

Thanks,

Chris
 

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Re: [Chain] re: Problem with CatalogFactory - getCatalog() returns null

[Craig McClanahan <cr...@apache.org>]

On 4/10/06, Chris Clarke <Ch...@talis.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having an issue with getting a Catalog from the CatalogFactory with
> Commons Chain. I've defined my own XML configuration file as follows:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <chains>
>   <chain name="logon">
>       <command name="CheckCredentials" className="
> com.talis.springbok.jsfspike.manager.logon.commands.CheckCredentials"/>
>       <command name="RetrievePermissions" className="
> com.talis.springbok.jsfspike.manager.logon.commands.RetrievePermissions"/>
>   </chain>
> </chains>


This configuration file is not creating any catalog names.  Try doing
something like this:

  <?xml version="1.0" ?>
  <chains>
    <catalog name="My Catalog">
      <chain name="logon">
        <command name="CheckCredentials"
                 className="
com.talis.springbok.jsfspike.manager.logon.commands.CheckCredentials"/>
        <command name="RetrievePermissions"
                 className="
com.talis.springbok.jsfspike.manager.logon.commands.RetrievePermissions"/>
      </chain>
    </catalog>
  </chains>

and you'll be able to call getCatalog("My Catalog") to pick up the entire
catalog (with only one chain in this case).

Craig