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package org.apache.commons.configuration.interpol;
import java.lang.reflect.Field;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import org.apache.commons.lang.ClassUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang.text.StrLookup;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
/**
*
* A specialized lookup implementation that allows access to constant fields of
* classes.
*
*
* Sometimes it is necessary in a configuration file to refer to a constant
* defined in a class. This can be done with this lookup implementation.
* Variable names passed in must be of the form
* mypackage.MyClass.FIELD
. The lookup()
method
* will split the passed in string at the last dot, separating the fully
* qualified class name and the name of the constant (i.e. static final)
* member field. Then the class is loaded and the field's value is obtained
* using reflection.
*
*
* Once retrieved values are cached for fast access. This class is thread-safe.
* It can be used as a standard (i.e. global) lookup object and serve multiple
* clients concurrently.
*
*
* @version $Id: ConstantLookup.java 588329 2007-10-25 20:01:31Z oheger $
* @since 1.4
* @author Commons
* Configuration team
*/
public class ConstantLookup extends StrLookup
{
/** Constant for the field separator. */
private static final char FIELD_SEPRATOR = '.';
/** An internally used cache for already retrieved values. */
private static Map constantCache = new HashMap();
/** The logger. */
private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());
/**
* Tries to resolve the specified variable. The passed in variable name is
* interpreted as the name of a static final member field of a
* class. If the value has already been obtained, it can be retrieved from
* an internal cache. Otherwise this method will invoke the
* resolveField()
method and pass in the name of the class
* and the field.
*
* @param var the name of the variable to be resolved
* @return the value of this variable or null if it cannot be
* resolved
*/
public String lookup(String var)
{
if (var == null)
{
return null;
}
String result;
synchronized (constantCache)
{
result = (String) constantCache.get(var);
}
if (result != null)
{
return result;
}
int fieldPos = var.lastIndexOf(FIELD_SEPRATOR);
if (fieldPos < 0)
{
return null;
}
try
{
Object value = resolveField(var.substring(0, fieldPos), var
.substring(fieldPos + 1));
if (value != null)
{
synchronized (constantCache)
{
// In worst case, the value will be fetched multiple times
// because of this lax synchronisation, but for constant
// values this shouldn't be a problem.
constantCache.put(var, String.valueOf(value));
}
result = value.toString();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
log.warn("Could not obtain value for variable " + var, ex);
}
return result;
}
/**
* Clears the shared cache with the so far resolved constants.
*/
public static void clear()
{
synchronized (constantCache)
{
constantCache.clear();
}
}
/**
* Determines the value of the specified constant member field of a class.
* This implementation will call fetchClass()
to obtain the
* java.lang.Class
object for the target class. Then it will
* use reflection to obtain the field's value. For this to work the field
* must be accessable.
*
* @param className the name of the class
* @param fieldName the name of the member field of that class to read
* @return the field's value
* @throws Exception if an error occurs
*/
protected Object resolveField(String className, String fieldName)
throws Exception
{
Class clazz = fetchClass(className);
Field field = clazz.getField(fieldName);
return field.get(null);
}
/**
* Loads the class with the specified name. If an application has special
* needs regarding the class loaders to be used, it can hook in here. This
* implementation delegates to the getClass()
method of
* Commons Lang's
*
* ClassUtils
.
*
* @param className the name of the class to be loaded
* @return the corresponding class object
* @throws ClassNotFoundException if the class cannot be loaded
*/
protected Class fetchClass(String className) throws ClassNotFoundException
{
return ClassUtils.getClass(className);
}
}