org.codice.ddf.transformer.xml.streaming

Interface SaxEventHandler

All Superinterfaces:

ContentHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSaxEventHandler, GmlHandler, XmlSaxEventHandlerImpl

public interface SaxEventHandler
extends ContentHandler

Interface used to handle sax events fired from SaxEventHandlerDelegate and org.codice.ddf.transformer.xml.streaming.lib.XMLInputTransformer. At the end of parsing, it will have a list of Attributes that can be used to populate a metacard. A specific implementation can be used to handle specific XML elements and metacards. @see ddf.catalog.transformer.generic.xml.impl.XMLSaxEventHandlerImpl

This code is experimental. While this class is functional and tested, it may change or be removed in a future version of the library.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<Attribute>	getAttributes()
Set<AttributeDescriptor>	getSupportedAttributeDescriptors() Get all the possible attribute types that can be returned by this factory's handler

Methods inherited from interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

characters, endDocument, endElement, endPrefixMapping, ignorableWhitespace, processingInstruction, setDocumentLocator, skippedEntity, startDocument, startElement, startPrefixMapping

Method Detail

getAttributes

List<Attribute> getAttributes()

Returns:

a list of attributes that has been constructed during the parsing of an XML document.

getSupportedAttributeDescriptors

Set<AttributeDescriptor> getSupportedAttributeDescriptors()

Get all the possible attribute types that can be returned by this factory's handler

Returns:

a set of attribute descriptors that can be returned by this handler