src/org/jivesoftware/smack/provider/EmbeddedExtensionProvider.java

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package org.jivesoftware.smack.provider;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.jivesoftware.smack.packet.PacketExtension;
import org.jivesoftware.smack.provider.PacketExtensionProvider;
import org.jivesoftware.smack.util.PacketParserUtils;
import org.jivesoftware.smackx.pubsub.provider.ItemProvider;
import org.jivesoftware.smackx.pubsub.provider.ItemsProvider;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;

/**
 * 
 * This class simplifies parsing of embedded elements by using the 
 * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_method_pattern">Template Method Pattern</a>.  
 * After extracting the current element attributes and content of any child elements, the template method 
 * ({@link #createReturnExtension(String, String, Map, List)} is called.  Subclasses
 * then override this method to create the specific return type.
 * 
 * <p>To use this class, you simply register your subclasses as extension providers in the 
 * <b>smack.properties</b> file.  Then they will be automatically picked up and used to parse
 * any child elements.  
 * 
 * <pre>
 * For example, given the following message
 * 
 * &lt;message from='pubsub.shakespeare.lit' to='francisco@denmark.lit' id='foo&gt;
 *    &lt;event xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event&gt;
 *       &lt;items node='princely_musings'&gt;
 *          &lt;item id='asdjkwei3i34234n356'&gt;
 *             &lt;entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'&gt;
 *                &lt;title&gt;Soliloquy&lt;/title&gt;
 *                &lt;link rel='alternative' type='text/html'/&gt;
 *                &lt;id>tag:denmark.lit,2003:entry-32397&lt;/id&gt;
 *             &lt;/entry&gt;
 *          &lt;/item&gt;
 *       &lt;/items&gt;
 *    &lt;/event&gt;
 * &lt;/message&gt;
 * 
 * I would have a classes
 * {@link ItemsProvider} extends {@link EmbeddedExtensionProvider}
 * {@link ItemProvider} extends {@link EmbeddedExtensionProvider}
 * and
 * AtomProvider extends {@link PacketExtensionProvider}
 * 
 * These classes are then registered in the meta-inf/smack.providers file
 * as follows.
 * 
 *   &lt;extensionProvider&gt;
 *      &lt;elementName&gt;items&lt;/elementName&gt;
 *      &lt;namespace&gt;http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event&lt;/namespace&gt;
 *      &lt;className&gt;org.jivesoftware.smackx.provider.ItemsEventProvider&lt;/className&gt;
 *   &lt;/extensionProvider&gt;
 *   &lt;extensionProvider&gt;
 *       &lt;elementName&gt;item&lt;/elementName&gt;
 *       &lt;namespace&gt;http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#event&lt;/namespace&gt;
 *       &lt;className&gt;org.jivesoftware.smackx.provider.ItemProvider&lt;/className&gt;
 *   &lt;/extensionProvider&gt;
 * 
 * </pre>
 * 
 * @author Robin Collier
 */
abstract public class EmbeddedExtensionProvider implements PacketExtensionProvider
{

	final public PacketExtension parseExtension(XmlPullParser parser) throws Exception
	{
        String namespace = parser.getNamespace();
        String name = parser.getName();
        Map<String, String> attMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
        
        for(int i=0; i<parser.getAttributeCount(); i++)
        {
        	attMap.put(parser.getAttributeName(i), parser.getAttributeValue(i));
        }
        List<PacketExtension> extensions = new ArrayList<PacketExtension>();
        
        do
        {
            int tag = parser.next();

            if (tag == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) 
            	extensions.add(PacketParserUtils.parsePacketExtension(parser.getName(), parser.getNamespace(), parser));
        } while (!name.equals(parser.getName()));

		return createReturnExtension(name, namespace, attMap, extensions);
	}

	abstract protected PacketExtension createReturnExtension(String currentElement, String currentNamespace, Map<String, String> attributeMap, List<? extends PacketExtension> content);
}