uk.org.ogsadai.client.toolkit.activity.xmldb
Class XMLCreateResource

java.lang.Object
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  +--uk.org.ogsadai.client.toolkit.activity.RequestComponent
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        +--uk.org.ogsadai.client.toolkit.activity.Activity
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              +--uk.org.ogsadai.client.toolkit.activity.xmldb.XMLCreateResource

public class XMLCreateResource

extends Activity

This activity creates a new resource within an XML database collection exposed by an XMLDB data service resource.

This activity has no input and one output - the name of the new resource. The format of the output is OGSA-DAI specific XML. For example:

<createdResource name="someNewResource"/>

Author:

The OGSA-DAI Project Team

COPYRIGHT_NOTICE

private static final java.lang.String COPYRIGHT_NOTICE

Copyright statement

See Also:

Constant Field Values

mResourceName

private java.lang.String mResourceName

Resource name

mParentCollectionName

private java.lang.String mParentCollectionName

Parent Collection name

mContent

private java.lang.String mContent

Resource content

XMLCreateResource

public XMLCreateResource()

Constructs a request to create a resource. The resource will be created in the base collection and it is assumed the XMLDB resource will assign it a name. The content must be set using setContent or setContentFromFile.

XMLCreateResource

public XMLCreateResource(java.lang.String content)
                  throws XMLDBResourceException

Constructs a request to create a resource. The resource will be created in the base collection and it is assumed the XMLDB resource will assign it a name.

Parameters:

content - Content of the new resource in XML.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If content is null.

XMLDBResourceException - If content cannot be parsed as XML.

setResourceName

public void setResourceName(java.lang.String resourceName)

Set the name of the resource to be created.

Parameters:

resourceName - Name of resource to be created. If null then it is assumed the XMLDB resource will assign it a name.

setParentCollectionName

public void setParentCollectionName(java.lang.String parentCollectionName)

Set the parent collection name. The resource will be created in this collection. If this is set to null then the resource will be created in the base collection.

Parameters:

parentCollectionName - The name of the collection or null.

setContent

public void setContent(java.lang.String content)
                throws XMLDBResourceException

Sets the content of the new resource.

Parameters:

content - Content of the new resource in XML.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If content is null.

XMLDBResourceException - If content cannot be parsed as XML.

setContentFromFile

public void setContentFromFile(java.lang.String contentFileName)
                        throws XMLDBResourceException

Sets the content of the new resource from a file.

Parameters:

contentFileName - Name of XML file containing the content of the new resource.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If contentFileName is null.

XMLDBResourceException - If there is a problem accessing resource e.g. accessing the file or parsing its contents.

getOutput

public ActivityOutput getOutput()

Gets the activity's only output - the name of the new resource.

Returns:

the activity output.

getResourceName

public java.lang.String getResourceName()
                                 throws NoActivityOutputException,
                                        DataFormatException

Gets the name of the new resource.

Returns:

resource name.

Throws:

NoActivityOutputException - if there is no output data or the data has not yet been processed to this output or the activity that generates this output has not yet been executed.

DataFormatException - if the output from the activity cannot be parsed into a name.

generateXML

protected java.lang.String generateXML()

Description copied from class: RequestComponent

Generates the XML representing the activity. This XML can then be inserted into a perform document that is sent to a data service.

Specified by:

generateXML in class Activity

Returns:

the XML for the activity

See Also:

Activity.generateXML()