org.apache.axiom.om
Interface OMContainer

All Superinterfaces:

OMInformationItem, OMSerializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

OMContainerEx, OMDocument, OMElement, OMElementEx, OMSourcedElement, SOAPBody, SOAPEnvelope, SOAPFault, SOAPFaultClassifier, SOAPFaultCode, SOAPFaultDetail, SOAPFaultNode, SOAPFaultReason, SOAPFaultRole, SOAPFaultSubCode, SOAPFaultText, SOAPFaultValue, SOAPHeader, SOAPHeaderBlock, SOAPMessage

public interface OMContainer
extends OMSerializable

Captures the operations related to containment shared by both a document and an element.

Exposes the ability to add, find, and iterate over the children of a document or element.

Method Summary

void	addChild(OMNode omNode) Adds the given node as the last child of this container.
OMXMLParserWrapper	getBuilder() Returns the builder object.
Iterator	getChildren() Returns an iterator for the children of the container.
Iterator	getChildrenWithLocalName(String localName) Returns an iterator for child nodes matching the local name.
Iterator	getChildrenWithName(QName elementQName) Returns an iterator for child nodes matching the given QName.
Iterator	getChildrenWithNamespaceURI(String uri) Returns an iterator for child nodes matching the namespace uri.
Iterator	getDescendants(boolean includeSelf) Get an iterator over all descendants of the container.
OMElement	getFirstChildWithName(QName qname) Returns the first child in document order that matches the given QName.
OMNode	getFirstOMChild() Gets the first child.
SAXSource	getSAXSource(boolean cache) Get a SAXSource representation for this node.
XMLStreamReader	getXMLStreamReader() Get a pull parser representation of this element with caching enabled.
XMLStreamReader	getXMLStreamReader(boolean cache) Get a pull parser representation of this information item.
XMLStreamReader	getXMLStreamReader(boolean cache, OMXMLStreamReaderConfiguration configuration) Get a pull parser representation of this information item.
XMLStreamReader	getXMLStreamReaderWithoutCaching() Get a pull parser representation of this element with caching disabled.
void	removeChildren() Remove all children from this container.
void	serialize(OutputStream output) Serialize the node with caching enabled.
void	serialize(OutputStream output, OMOutputFormat format) Serialize the node with caching enabled.
void	serialize(Writer writer) Serialize the node with caching enabled.
void	serialize(Writer writer, OMOutputFormat format) Serialize the node with caching enabled.
void	serializeAndConsume(OutputStream output) Serialize the node without caching.
void	serializeAndConsume(OutputStream output, OMOutputFormat format) Serialize the node without caching.
void	serializeAndConsume(Writer writer) Serialize the node without caching.
void	serializeAndConsume(Writer writer, OMOutputFormat format) Serialize the node without caching.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.axiom.om.OMSerializable

build, close, isComplete, serialize, serialize, serializeAndConsume

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.axiom.om.OMInformationItem

clone, getOMFactory

Method Detail

getBuilder

OMXMLParserWrapper getBuilder()

Returns the builder object.

Returns:

Returns the builder object used to construct the underlying XML infoset on the fly.

addChild

void addChild(OMNode omNode)

Adds the given node as the last child of this container.

Parameters:

omNode - the node to be added to this container

getChildrenWithName

Iterator getChildrenWithName(QName elementQName)

Returns an iterator for child nodes matching the given QName.

Parameters:

elementQName - The QName specifying namespace and local name to match.

Returns:

Returns an iterator of OMElement items that match the given QName

getChildrenWithLocalName

Iterator getChildrenWithLocalName(String localName)

Returns an iterator for child nodes matching the local name.

Parameters:

localName -

Returns:

Returns an iterator of OMElement items that match the given localName

getChildrenWithNamespaceURI

Iterator getChildrenWithNamespaceURI(String uri)

Returns an iterator for child nodes matching the namespace uri.

Parameters:

uri -

Returns:

Returns an iterator of OMElement items that match the given uri

getFirstChildWithName

OMElement getFirstChildWithName(QName qname)
                                throws OMException

Returns the first child in document order that matches the given QName. The QName filter is applied in the same way as by the getChildrenWithName(QName) method.

Parameters:

qname - The QName to use for matching.

Returns:

The first child element in document order that matches the qname criteria, or null if none is found.

Throws:

OMException - If an error occurs during deferred parsing.

See Also:

getChildrenWithName(QName)

getChildren

Iterator getChildren()

Returns an iterator for the children of the container.

Returns:

Returns a Iterator of children, all of which implement OMNode.

See Also:

getFirstChildWithName(javax.xml.namespace.QName), getChildrenWithName(javax.xml.namespace.QName)

getDescendants

Iterator getDescendants(boolean includeSelf)

Get an iterator over all descendants of the container. The items are returned in document order. Note that attributes and namespace declarations are not considered descendants.

Parameters:

includeSelf - true if the iterator should also return the container itself; false if the first item returned by the iterator should be the first child of the container

Returns:

an iterator over the descendants of this container

getFirstOMChild

OMNode getFirstOMChild()

Gets the first child.

Returns:

Returns the first child. May return null if the container has no children.

removeChildren

void removeChildren()

Remove all children from this container. This method has the same effect as the following code:

 for (Iterator it = container.getChildren(); it.hasNext(); ) {
     it.next();
     it.remove();
 }

However, the implementation may do this in an optimized way. In particular, if the node is incomplete, it may choose not to instantiate child node that would become unreachable anyway.

serialize

void serialize(OutputStream output)
               throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node with caching enabled.

This method will always serialize the infoset as plain XML. In particular, any OMText containing optimized binary will be inlined using base64 encoding.

Parameters:

output - the byte stream to write the serialized infoset to

Throws:

XMLStreamException

serialize

void serialize(Writer writer)
               throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node with caching enabled.

This method will always serialize the infoset as plain XML. In particular, any OMText containing optimized binary will be inlined using base64 encoding.

Parameters:

writer - the character stream to write the serialized infoset to

Throws:

XMLStreamException

serialize

void serialize(OutputStream output,
               OMOutputFormat format)
               throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node with caching enabled.

The format of the output is controlled by the provided OMOutputFormat object. In particular, OMOutputFormat.setDoOptimize(boolean) can be used to instruct this method to produce an XOP/MTOM encoded MIME message.

Parameters:

output - the byte stream to write the serialized infoset to

format - the output format to use

Throws:

XMLStreamException

serialize

void serialize(Writer writer,
               OMOutputFormat format)
               throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node with caching enabled.

Parameters:

writer - the character stream to write the serialized infoset to

format - the output format to use

Throws:

XMLStreamException

serializeAndConsume

void serializeAndConsume(OutputStream output)
                         throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node without caching.

This method will always serialize the infoset as plain XML. In particular, any OMText containing optimized binary will be inlined using base64 encoding.

Parameters:

output - the byte stream to write the serialized infoset to

Throws:

XMLStreamException

serializeAndConsume

void serializeAndConsume(Writer writer)
                         throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node without caching.

This method will always serialize the infoset as plain XML. In particular, any OMText containing optimized binary will be inlined using base64 encoding.

Parameters:

writer - the character stream to write the serialized infoset to

Throws:

XMLStreamException

serializeAndConsume

void serializeAndConsume(OutputStream output,
                         OMOutputFormat format)
                         throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node without caching.

The format of the output is controlled by the provided OMOutputFormat object. In particular, OMOutputFormat.setDoOptimize(boolean) can be used to instruct this method to produce an XOP/MTOM encoded MIME message.

Parameters:

output - the byte stream to write the serialized infoset to

format - the output format to use

Throws:

XMLStreamException

serializeAndConsume

void serializeAndConsume(Writer writer,
                         OMOutputFormat format)
                         throws XMLStreamException

Serialize the node without caching.

Parameters:

writer - the character stream to write the serialized infoset to

format - the output format to use

Throws:

XMLStreamException

getXMLStreamReader

XMLStreamReader getXMLStreamReader()

Get a pull parser representation of this element with caching enabled. This method has the same effect as getXMLStreamReader(boolean) with cache set to true.

Returns:

an XMLStreamReader representation of this element

getXMLStreamReaderWithoutCaching

XMLStreamReader getXMLStreamReaderWithoutCaching()

Get a pull parser representation of this element with caching disabled. This method has the same effect as getXMLStreamReader(boolean) with cache set to false.

Returns:

an XMLStreamReader representation of this element

getXMLStreamReader

XMLStreamReader getXMLStreamReader(boolean cache)

Get a pull parser representation of this information item. This methods creates an XMLStreamReader instance that produces a sequence of StAX events for this element and its content. The sequence of events is independent of the state of this element and the value of the cache parameter, but the side effects of calling this method and consuming the reader are different:

State	cache	Side effects
The element is fully built (or was created programmatically).	true	No side effects. The reader will synthesize StAX events from the object model.
	false
The element is partially built, i.e. deferred parsing is taking place.	true	When a StAX event is requested from the reader, it will built the information item (if necessary) and synthesize the StAX event. If the caller completely consumes the reader, the element will be completely built. Otherwise it will be partially built.
	false	The reader will delegate to the underlying parser starting from the event corresponding to the last information item that has been built. In other words, after synthesizing a number of events, the reader will switch to delegation mode. An attempt to access the object model afterwards will result in an error.

To free any resources associated with the returned reader, the caller MUST invoke the XMLStreamReader.close() method.

The returned reader MAY implement the extension defined by DataHandlerReader and any binary content will be reported using this extension. More precisely, if the object model contains an OMText instance with OMText.isBinary() returning true (or would contain such an instance after it has been fully built), then its data will always be exposed through this extension.

The caller MUST NOT make any other assumption about the returned reader, in particular about its runtime type.

Note (non normative): For various reasons, existing code based on Axiom versions prior to 1.2.9 makes assumptions on the returned reader that should no longer be considered valid:

• Some code assumes that the returned reader is an instance of OMStAXWrapper. While it is true that Axiom internally uses this class to synthesize StAX events, it may wrap this instance in another reader implementation. E.g. depending on the log level, the reader will be wrapped using OMXMLStreamReaderValidator. This was already the case in Axiom versions prior to 1.2.9. It should also be noted that instances of OMSourcedElement (which extends the present interface) may return a reader that is not implemented using OMStAXWrapper.
• Some code uses the OMXMLStreamReader interface of the returned reader to switch off MTOM inlining using OMXMLStreamReader.setInlineMTOM(boolean). This has now been deprecated and it is recommended to use XOPEncodingStreamReader instead.
• Some existing code uses the OMAttachmentAccessor interface of the returned reader to fetch attachments using OMAttachmentAccessor.getDataHandler(String). There is no reason anymore to do so:
• When OMXMLStreamReader.setInlineMTOM(boolean) is used to disable MTOM inlining, OMAttachmentAccessor.getDataHandler(String) must be used to retrieve the binary content. The fact that this method is deprecated removes the need for this.
• In Axiom versions prior to 1.2.9, the sequence of events was inconsistent if the underlying stream is XOP encoded and caching is disabled (see AXIOM-255). This made it necessary for the caller to (partially) handle the XOP processing and to use OMAttachmentAccessor.getDataHandler(String) to retrieve the binary content. Starting with 1.2.9 this is no longer be the case: as specified above, the sequence of events is independent of the state of the object model and the value of the cache parameter, and all binary content is reported through the DataHandlerReader extension.
• Finally, it should be noted that OMAttachmentAccessor.getDataHandler(String) doesn't give access to the attachments in the SwA case (neither in 1.2.9 nor in previous versions).

Code making any of these assumptions should be fixed, so that only XMLStreamReader and DataHandlerReader are used (and if necessary, XOPEncodingStreamReader).

Parameters:

cache - indicates if caching should be enabled

Returns:

an XMLStreamReader representation of this information item

getXMLStreamReader

XMLStreamReader getXMLStreamReader(boolean cache,
                                   OMXMLStreamReaderConfiguration configuration)

Get a pull parser representation of this information item. This method is similar to getXMLStreamReader(boolean), but accepts an OMXMLStreamReaderConfiguration object that allows to specify additional options and to customize the behavior of the returned reader.

Parameters:

cache - indicates if caching should be enabled

configuration - additional configuration options; see the Javadoc of OMXMLStreamReaderConfiguration for more information about the available options

Returns:

an XMLStreamReader representation of this information item

getSAXSource

SAXSource getSAXSource(boolean cache)

Get a SAXSource representation for this node. This method can be used to integrate Axiom with APIs and third party libraries that don't support StAX. In particular it can be used with the Transformer API.

The returned object supports all events defined by ContentHandler and LexicalHandler. DTDHandler and DeclHandler are not supported.

If the node is an element and has a parent which is not a document, care is taken to properly generate ContentHandler.startPrefixMapping(String, String) and ContentHandler.endPrefixMapping(String) events also for namespace mappings declared on the ancestors of the element. To understand why this is important, consider the following example:

<root xmlns:ns="urn:ns"><element attr="ns:someThing"/><root>

In that case, to correctly interpret the attribute value, the SAX content handler must be aware of the namespace mapping for the ns prefix, even if the serialization starts only at the child element.

Parameters:

cache - Indicates if caching should be enabled. If set to false, the returned SAXSource may only be used once, and using it may have the side effect of consuming the original content of this node.

Returns:

a SAXSource representation of this element