com.generationjava.io.xml
Class FormattingXmlWriter

java.lang.Object
  com.generationjava.io.xml.DelegatingXmlWriter
      com.generationjava.io.xml.FormattingXmlWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

XmlWriter

public class FormattingXmlWriter
extends DelegatingXmlWriter

Formats Numbers and Dates on the fly.

Constructor Summary

FormattingXmlWriter(XmlWriter writer)

Method Summary

protected String	format(Object unknown)
FormattingXmlWriter	setDateFormat(DateFormat format) When a java.util.Date object is written, it will use this to format it.
FormattingXmlWriter	setNumberFormat(NumberFormat format) When a Number object is written, it will use this to format it.
XmlWriter	writeAttribute(String name, Object value) Write an attribute out for the current entity.
XmlWriter	writeEntityWithText(String name, Object text) A helper method.
XmlWriter	writeText(Object text) Output body text.

Methods inherited from class com.generationjava.io.xml.DelegatingXmlWriter

close, endEntity, getWriter, writeCData, writeComment, writeEmptyEntity, writeEntity, writeXmlVersion, writeXmlVersion, writeXmlVersion

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FormattingXmlWriter

public FormattingXmlWriter(XmlWriter writer)

Method Detail

setNumberFormat

public FormattingXmlWriter setNumberFormat(NumberFormat format)

When a Number object is written, it will use this to format it. If the argument is null then it uses .toString.

setDateFormat

public FormattingXmlWriter setDateFormat(DateFormat format)

When a java.util.Date object is written, it will use this to format it. If the argument is null then it uses .toString.

writeEntityWithText

public XmlWriter writeEntityWithText(String name,
                                     Object text)
                              throws IOException

Description copied from class: DelegatingXmlWriter

A helper method. It writes out an entity which contains only text.

Specified by:

writeEntityWithText in interface XmlWriter

Overrides:

writeEntityWithText in class DelegatingXmlWriter

Parameters:

name - String name of tag

text - String of text to go inside the tag

Throws:

IOException

writeText

public XmlWriter writeText(Object text)
                    throws IOException

Description copied from class: DelegatingXmlWriter

Output body text. Any xml characters are escaped.

Specified by:

writeText in interface XmlWriter

Overrides:

writeText in class DelegatingXmlWriter

Throws:

IOException

writeAttribute

public XmlWriter writeAttribute(String name,
                                Object value)
                         throws IOException

Description copied from class: DelegatingXmlWriter

Write an attribute out for the current entity. Any xml characters in the value are escaped. Currently it does not actually throw the exception, but the api is set that way for future changes.

Specified by:

writeAttribute in interface XmlWriter

Overrides:

writeAttribute in class DelegatingXmlWriter

Throws:

IOException

format

protected String format(Object unknown)