org.exolab.castor.builder.binding
Class BindingLoader

java.lang.Object
  org.exolab.castor.builder.binding.BindingLoader

public final class BindingLoader
extends java.lang.Object

This class is responsible for loading a binding document into an in-memory representation that is meant to be used by the SourceGenerator.

Version:

$Revision: 7996 $ $Date: 2005-03-05 06:42:06 -0700 (Sat, 05 Mar 2005) $

Author:

Arnaud Blandin

Nested Class Summary

(package private) class

BindingLoader.BindingResolver EntityResolver specific to resolving entities related to the Castor XML code generator binding file.

Constructor Summary

BindingLoader()
No-arg constructor.

Method Summary

static ExtendedBinding	createBinding(org.xml.sax.InputSource source) Factory method that returns a binding given an InputSource.
static ExtendedBinding	createBinding(java.lang.String fileName) Factory method for unmarshalling an ExtendedBinding instance from the binding file as identified by the given file name.
ExtendedBinding	getBinding() Returns the binding loaded by the BindingLoader.
void	loadBinding(org.xml.sax.InputSource source) Loads a Binding Document.
void	loadBinding(java.lang.String url) Loads the binding file from the URL given, and populates the ExtendedBinding instance from the values given.
void	setBaseURL(java.lang.String url) Sets the base URL for the binding and related files.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BindingLoader

public BindingLoader()

No-arg constructor.

Method Detail

loadBinding

public void loadBinding(java.lang.String url)
                 throws BindingException

Loads the binding file from the URL given, and populates the ExtendedBinding instance from the values given.

Parameters:

url - The URL for the binding file to process.

Throws:

BindingException - If the binding file cannnot be processed properly.

loadBinding

public void loadBinding(org.xml.sax.InputSource source)
                 throws BindingException

Loads a Binding Document. This method will load the binding document into a binding object and load all the included bindings along the way into a single collection.

Parameters:

source - The binding document to load.

Throws:

BindingException - thrown when an error occurred during the unmarshalling.

getBinding

public ExtendedBinding getBinding()

Returns the binding loaded by the BindingLoader.

Returns:

the binding loaded by this BindingLoader. This will return null if no call to loadBinding has been previously made.

setBaseURL

public void setBaseURL(java.lang.String url)

Sets the base URL for the binding and related files. If the base URL is known, files can be included using relative names. Any URL can be passed, if the URL can serve as a base URL it will be used.

Parameters:

url - The base URL

createBinding

public static ExtendedBinding createBinding(org.xml.sax.InputSource source)
                                     throws BindingException

Factory method that returns a binding given an InputSource. The InputSource identifies a Binding Document meant to be loaded.

Parameters:

source - the InputSource identifying the binding document to be loaded.

Returns:

a binding that contains the different component bindings to be used in the source generator.

Throws:

BindingException - thrown when the given InputSource doesn't refer to a valid Binding document.

createBinding

public static ExtendedBinding createBinding(java.lang.String fileName)
                                     throws BindingException

Factory method for unmarshalling an ExtendedBinding instance from the binding file as identified by the given file name.

Parameters:

fileName - Binding file name.

Returns:

An ExtendedBinding instance populated from the given binding file (name).

Throws:

BindingException - If the binding file cannot be processed properly.