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/* * ======================================================================== * * Copyright 2005 Tim O'Brien. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * * ======================================================================== */ package com.discursive.jccook.collections.predicate; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Set; import org.apache.commons.collections.Predicate; import org.apache.commons.collections.map.TypedMap; import org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathContext; import org.apache.commons.jxpath.JXPathException; public class XPathPredicate implements Predicate { private String path; private Map variables = TypedMap.decorate(new HashMap(), String.class, Object.class); public XPathPredicate(String path) { this.path = path; } public XPathPredicate(String path, Map variables) { this.path = path; this.variables.putAll(variables); } public boolean evaluate(Object object) { boolean matches = false; JXPathContext context = JXPathContext.newContext(object); if (variables != null) { populateVariables(context); } try { Object value = context.getValue(path); if (value != null) { matches = true; } } catch (JXPathException e) { // If this happens there is no match } return matches; } private void populateVariables(JXPathContext context) { Set keys = variables.keySet(); Iterator keyIter = keys.iterator(); while (keyIter.hasNext()) { String key = (String) keyIter.next(); context.getVariables().declareVariable(key, variables.get(key)); } } }