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package org.apache.commons.configuration.tree;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
/**
*
* A simple data class used by {@link ExpressionEngine}
to store
* the results of the prepareAdd()
operation.
*
*
* If a new property is to be added to a configuration, the affected
* Configuration
object must know, where in its hierarchy of
* configuration nodes new elements have to be added. This information is
* obtained by an ExpressionEngine
object that interprets the key
* of the new property. This expression engine will pack all information
* necessary for the configuration to perform the add operation in an instance
* of this class.
*
*
* Information managed by this class contains:
*
* - the configuration node, to which new elements must be added
* - the name of the new node
* - whether the new node is a child node or an attribute node
* - if a whole branch is to be added at once, the names of all nodes between
* the parent node (the target of the add operation) and the new node
*
*
*
* @since 1.3
* @author Oliver Heger
*/
public class NodeAddData
{
/** Stores the parent node of the add operation. */
private ConfigurationNode parent;
/**
* Stores a list with nodes that are on the path between the parent node and
* the new node.
*/
private List pathNodes;
/** Stores the name of the new node. */
private String newNodeName;
/** Stores the attribute flag. */
private boolean attribute;
/**
* Creates a new, uninitialized instance of NodeAddData
.
*/
public NodeAddData()
{
this(null, null);
}
/**
* Creates a new instance of NodeAddData
and sets the most
* important data fields.
*
* @param parent the parent node
* @param nodeName the name of the new node
*/
public NodeAddData(ConfigurationNode parent, String nodeName)
{
setParent(parent);
setNewNodeName(nodeName);
}
/**
* Returns a flag if the new node to be added is an attribute.
*
* @return true for an attribute node, false for a child
* node
*/
public boolean isAttribute()
{
return attribute;
}
/**
* Sets the attribute flag. This flag determines whether an attribute or a
* child node will be added.
*
* @param attribute the attribute flag
*/
public void setAttribute(boolean attribute)
{
this.attribute = attribute;
}
/**
* Returns the name of the new node.
*
* @return the new node's name
*/
public String getNewNodeName()
{
return newNodeName;
}
/**
* Sets the name of the new node. A node with this name will be added to the
* configuration's node hierarchy.
*
* @param newNodeName the name of the new node
*/
public void setNewNodeName(String newNodeName)
{
this.newNodeName = newNodeName;
}
/**
* Returns the parent node.
*
* @return the parent node
*/
public ConfigurationNode getParent()
{
return parent;
}
/**
* Sets the parent node. New nodes will be added to this node.
*
* @param parent the parent node
*/
public void setParent(ConfigurationNode parent)
{
this.parent = parent;
}
/**
* Returns a list with further nodes that must be added. This is needed if a
* complete branch is to be added at once. For instance imagine that there
* exists only a node database
. Now the key
* database.connection.settings.username
(assuming the syntax
* of the default expression engine) is to be added. Then
* username
is the name of the new node, but the nodes
* connection
and settings
must be added to
* the parent node first. In this example these names would be returned by
* this method.
*
* @return a list with the names of nodes that must be added as parents of
* the new node (never null)
*/
public List getPathNodes()
{
return (pathNodes != null) ? Collections.unmodifiableList(pathNodes)
: Collections.EMPTY_LIST;
}
/**
* Adds the name of a path node. With this method an additional node to be
* added can be defined.
*
* @param nodeName the name of the node
* @see #getPathNodes()
*/
public void addPathNode(String nodeName)
{
if (pathNodes == null)
{
pathNodes = new LinkedList();
}
pathNodes.add(nodeName);
}
}
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