com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.path

Class Path

java.lang.Object

com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.path.Path

public class Path
extends java.lang.Object

Represents a path to a single node in the tree.

Two absolute paths can also be compared to calculate the relative path between them. A relative path can be applied to an absolute path to calculate another absolute path.

Note that the paths are normally XPath compliant, so can be read by other XPath engines. However, toString() will select a node list while explicit() will always select an individual node. If the return type of the XPath evaluation is a node, the result will be the same, because XPath will then use the first element of the list. The following are examples of path expressions that the Path object supports:

Note that the implementation does not take care if the paths are XPath compliant, it simply manages the values between the path separator. However, it normalizes the path if a path element ends with a selector for the first element (i.e. "[1]"). Those will be handled transparent i.e. two Paths are treated equal if one was created with path elements containing this selector and the other one without.

The following are examples of path expressions that the Path object supports:

• /
• /some/node
• /a/b/c/b/a
• /a/b[1]/c[1]/b[1]/a[1]
• /some[3]/node[2]/a
• ../../../another[3]/node

Example

 Path a = new Path("/html/body/div[1]/table[2]/tr[3]/td/div");
 Path b = new Path("/html/body/div/table[2]/tr[6]/td/form");

 Path relativePath = a.relativeTo(b); // produces: "../../../tr[6]/td/form"
 Path c = a.apply(relativePath); // same as Path b.
 

Author:

Joe Walnes

See Also:

PathTracker

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Path(java.lang.String pathAsString)
Path(java.lang.String[] chunks)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Path	apply(Path relativePath)
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object o)
java.lang.String	explicit()
int	hashCode()
boolean	isAncestor(Path child)
Path	relativeTo(Path that)
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Path

public Path(java.lang.String pathAsString)

Path

public Path(java.lang.String[] chunks)

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

explicit

public java.lang.String explicit()

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object o)

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class java.lang.Object

relativeTo

public Path relativeTo(Path that)

apply

public Path apply(Path relativePath)

isAncestor

public boolean isAncestor(Path child)