Class FinderFromFile


  • public class FinderFromFile
    extends RuleFinder
    A rule-finding algorithm which expects the user to specify an absolute or relative path in the plugin declaration.

    The file is expected to contain Digester rules in xmlrules format.

    Since:
    1.6
    • Method Detail

      • findLoader

        public RuleLoader findLoader​(Digester d,
                                     java.lang.Class<?> pluginClass,
                                     java.util.Properties p)
                              throws PluginException
        If there exists a property with the name specified in the constructor, then load that file, run it through the xmlrules module and return an object encapsulating those rules.

        If there is no matching property provided, then just return null.

        The returned object (when non-null) will add the selected rules to the digester whenever its addRules method is invoked.

        Specified by:
        findLoader in class RuleFinder
        Parameters:
        d - The digester instance where locating plugin classes
        pluginClass - The plugin Java class
        p - The properties object that holds any xml attributes the user may have specified on the plugin declaration in order to indicate how to locate the plugin rules.
        Returns:
        a source of digester rules for the specified plugin class.
        Throws:
        PluginException - if the algorithm finds a source of rules, but there is something invalid about that source.