I have an XML file and I hant to get the data from it by using SAX. It goes till startElement() where it gets an error because when I try to get the attributes value, these are null. Why?
First of all, I call this method: load()
public RealEstate load() {
RealEstate data = null;
try {
//Create a "parser factory" for creating SAX parsers
SAXParserFactory spfac = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
//Now use the parser factory to create a SAXParser object
SAXParser sp = spfac.newSAXParser();
XMLReader xmlReader = sp.getXMLReader();
//Create an instance of this class; it defines all the handler methods
SaxParserRealEstateHandler handler = new SaxParserRealEstateHandler();
//assign our handler
xmlReader.setContentHandler(handler);
// Convert file to URL.
URL url = handler.fileToURL(new File(xmlFilename));
// Parse file.
xmlReader.parse(url.toString());
data = handler.getData();
} catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(RealStatePersistXML.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
catch (SAXException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(RealStatePersistXML.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
catch (IOException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(RealStatePersistXML.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
return data;
}
Here I have the methods startElement and endElement.
class SaxParserRealEstateHandler extends DefaultHandler
{
private String temp;
private RealEstate data;
private Estate estate;
private estateAddress address;
/**
* CONSTRUCTOR
*/
public SaxParserRealEstateHandler()
{
}
/**
* getData()
* This method gets the list of estates from RealEstate class.
* @return data list of states. Null in case of error or list not found.
*/
public RealEstate getData()
{
// RealEstate data = new RealEstate();
// data.addEstate(estate);
// data.getEstates();
// return data;
}
/*
* When the parser encounters plain text (not XML elements),
* it calls(this method, which accumulates them in a string buffer
*/
public void characters(char[] buffer, int start, int length) {
temp = new String(buffer, start, length);
}
/*
* Every time the parser encounters the beginning of a new element,
* it calls this method, which resets the string buffer
*/
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes){
switch (qName){
case"realState":
data = new RealEstate();
break;
case"estate":
estate = new Estate();
estate.setType(attributes.getValue("type"));
estate.setSurface(Double.parseDouble(attributes.getValue("surface")));
//estate.setAddress(attributes.getValue("address"));
estate.setPrice(Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue("price")));
break;
case"address":
address = new estateAddress();
address.setStreet(attributes.getValue("type"));
address.setNumber(Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue("surface")));
address.setFloor(Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue("type")));
address.setDoor(Integer.parseInt(attributes.getValue("surface")));
break;
default:
break;
}
}
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
switch (qName){
case"estate":
data.getEstates().add(estate);//quant ha llegit la etiqueta (</estate>) l'agreguem
break;
case"surface":
double surface = Double.parseDouble(temp);
estate.setSurface(surface);
break;
case"price":
double price = Double.parseDouble(temp);//tractar tema errors del parseDouble!
estate.setPrice(price);
break;
case"address":
estate.setAddress(address);
break;
case"street":
address.setStreet(temp);
break;
case"number":
int number = Integer.parseInt(temp);
address.setNumber(number);
break;
case"floor":
address.setStreet(temp);
break;
case"door":
address.setStreet(temp);
break;
default:
break;
}
}
/** fileToURL()
* Convenience method to convert a file to a url
* @throws Error if malformed url exception is generated
*/
public URL fileToURL(File file)
{
String path = file.getAbsolutePath();
String fSep = System.getProperty("file.separator");
if (fSep != null && fSep.length() == 1)
path = path.replace(fSep.charAt(0), '/');
if (path.length() > 0 && path.charAt(0) != '/')
path = '/' + path;
try
{
return new URL("file", null, path);
}
catch (java.net.MalformedURLException e)
{
throw new Error("Unexpected MalformedURLException");//no he pogut muntar una url com deu mana
//retornar null
}
}
}
XML code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<realState xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="realState.xsd">
<estate>
<type>House</type>
<surface>250,0</surface>
<address>
<street>C/Tarragona</street>
<number>54</number>
<floor>2</floor>
<door>1</door>
</address>
<price>140000,0</price>
</estate>
</realState>
XSD code: http://pastebin.com/nzEDsdLg
Classes RealEstate and Estate are working ok!
Thank you!
type, surface, and price are not attributes of the <estate> element. They are sub-elements.
To be attributes, you XML would be:
<estate type="House" surface="250,0" price="140000,0">
<address>
<street>C/Tarragona</street>
<number>54</number>
<floor>2</floor>
<door>1</door>
</address>
</estate>
Using a StAX parser is a lot easier than a SAX parser, and has very similar performance characteristics, so I suggest you use that instead.