org.embl.ebi.escience.baclava.factory
Class DataThingXMLFactory

java.lang.Object
  org.embl.ebi.escience.baclava.factory.DataThingXMLFactory

public class DataThingXMLFactory
extends java.lang.Object

Performs the creation of XML elements from DataThing objects and the configuration of existing DataThing objects from an XML representation.

Author:

Tom Oinn

Field Summary

static org.jdom.Namespace

namespace The namespace used in the XML representation of a DataThing object

Constructor Summary

DataThingXMLFactory()

Method Summary

static java.lang.Object	configureDataThing(org.jdom.Element rootElement, DataThing theDataThing) Build a DataThing from the supplied Element object, the Element in this case is the 'myGridDataDocument' element.
static org.jdom.Document	getDataDocument(java.util.Map dataThings) Return a Document from a Map of String to DataThing, this is the input and output document format for the workflow enactment engine.
static org.jdom.Element	getElement(DataThing theDataThing) Return an XML Jdom Element object for the DataThing supplied as the argument
static java.util.Map<java.lang.String,DataThing>	parseDataDocument(org.jdom.Document dataDocument) Parse a data document and return a Map of DataThing objects, the keys in the map being the string key attributes from the data document

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

namespace

public static org.jdom.Namespace namespace

The namespace used in the XML representation of a DataThing object

Constructor Detail

DataThingXMLFactory

public DataThingXMLFactory()

Method Detail

getDataDocument

public static org.jdom.Document getDataDocument(java.util.Map dataThings)

Return a Document from a Map of String to DataThing, this is the input and output document format for the workflow enactment engine.

parseDataDocument

public static java.util.Map<java.lang.String,DataThing> parseDataDocument(org.jdom.Document dataDocument)

Parse a data document and return a Map of DataThing objects, the keys in the map being the string key attributes from the data document

configureDataThing

public static java.lang.Object configureDataThing(org.jdom.Element rootElement,
                                                  DataThing theDataThing)

Build a DataThing from the supplied Element object, the Element in this case is the 'myGridDataDocument' element.

getElement

public static org.jdom.Element getElement(DataThing theDataThing)

Return an XML Jdom Element object for the DataThing supplied as the argument