| append to an existing file using ws:file [message #54747] |
Tue, 23 December 2008 10:49  |
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I would like some help on how to appending to a file.
My problem is I have XML diameter AVP definition files in a different
directory. I want to create an ASN1 format file based on the AVP
definition.
(i.e. loading each avp.xml file via some iterate loop and "combine" the
avp.xml information into a single asn1 file)
My current solution involves some manual appending because I don't see
ws:file support append. Here's are high level steps of my solution.
Use ws:file to create the first file that contents header information
(file.asn)
Then iterate on loading(then xpath to get the information) on individual
XML diamter AVP files. Then use ws:file and asn1.jet file and a different
file name to create one file for each avp file. Then cat the
loop generated files and append to file.asn.
Any thought on how I can eliminate this manual step.
I read a little bit about BufferedJET2Writer but have not able to get that
working yet.
Thanks for any help.
Edward
(Sorry for the previous accidental partial post. The text area to enter
this post is kind of hard to get the indentation correctly. Didn't
realized the curser was focused on the Post button when hitting Tabs and
Enters on the key board)
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| Re: append to an existing file using ws:file [message #55125 is a reply to message #54747] |
Mon, 12 January 2009 09:27  |
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Edward:
Sorry for the late reply.
Do you really want to append? This would imply that your final ASN1 file
would get bigger everytime you ran the transformation. Or are you looking
for a way to concatenate a number of information sources (templates,
existing files, etc...)?
JET doesn't currently have an append or concat facility. The best approach I
can think of would be to create a tag that read a file into the buffer
contents:
<x:readFile url="...''/>
Then, in your situation, your ASN1 template might look something like this:
<c:include template="templates/ans1.header.jet"/>
<c:iterate select="..." var="avpInfo">
<c:include template="template/ans1.from.avp.jet"/>
</c:iterate>
<ws:readFile src=" ... location of the final portion of the ANS1 file..."/>
Creating a readFile tag would not be difficult. I would model it very much
on the current ws:copyFile tag in terms of tag attributes to support. Here
is a quick and dirty implementation, stealing a bit from CopyFileTag.
Snippet from the plugin.xml defining the tag...
<emptyTag
class="org.eclipse.jet.examples.tags.control.ReadFileTag"
name="readFile"
whenContainingLineIsEmpty="preserve">
<attribute
name="src"
type="string"
use="required">
</attribute>
<attribute
name="context"
type="string"
use="optional">
</attribute>
<attribute
name="encoding"
type="string"
use="optional">
</attribute>
</emptyTag>
And the implementation class:
/**
* Implement a tag <x:readFile src="relative or absolute URL"
context="transform|workspace" encoding="..."/>.
* The context and encoding tags are optional. Default for context is
'transform'. Default for 'encoding' is the
* JRE default encoding.
*
*/
public class ReadFileTag extends AbstractEmptyTag {
/* (non-Javadoc)
* @see
org.eclipse.jet.taglib.EmptyTag#doAction(org.eclipse.jet.tag lib.TagInfo,
org.eclipse.jet.JET2Context, org.eclipse.jet.JET2Writer)
*/
public void doAction(TagInfo td, JET2Context context, JET2Writer out)
throws JET2TagException {
final String src = getAttribute("src");
final String srcContext = getAttribute("context");
final URL url = getSourceURL(src, srcContext, context);
final String encoding = getAttribute("encoding");
final String contents = ActionsUtil.readTextFile(url, encoding);
out.write(contents);
}
private URL getSourceURL(String url, String urlContext, JET2Context
context) throws JET2TagException
{
TransformContextExtender tce =
TransformContextExtender.getInstance(context);
final URL baseURL = tce.getBaseURL(urlContext);
if (url.startsWith("/")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
url = url.substring(1);
}
URL sourceURL;
try
{
sourceURL = new URL(baseURL, url);
}
catch (MalformedURLException e)
{
throw new JET2TagException(e);
}
return sourceURL;
}
}
I have submitted a bugzilla to track this enhancement:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=260709
Paul
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