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1   /**
2    * Copyright 2005-2011 The Kuali Foundation
3    *
4    * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    *
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10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.xmlrouting;
17  
18  import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
19  import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
20  import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFunctionResolver;
21  
22  import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.WorkflowRuntimeException;
23  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
24  
25  
26  /**
27   * Provides utilities for obtaining XPath instances which are "good-to-go" with access to the Workflow
28   * namespace and custom XPath functions.
29   * 
30   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
31   */
32  public class XPathHelper {
33  
34  	/**
35  	 * Creates a new XPath instance and initializes it with the WorkflowNamespaceContext and the
36  	 * WorkflowFunctionResolver.
37  	 */
38  	public static XPath newXPath() {
39  		XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
40  		xPath.setNamespaceContext(new WorkflowNamespaceContext());
41  		WorkflowFunctionResolver resolver = new WorkflowFunctionResolver();
42  		xPath.setXPathFunctionResolver(resolver); 
43  		resolver.setXpath(xPath);
44  		return xPath;
45  	}
46  
47  	/**
48  	 * Creates a new XPath instances and initializes it with the WorkflowNamespaceContext and the
49  	 * WorkflowFunctionResolver.  Also sets the root node on the WorkflowFunctionResolver to 
50  	 * the given Node.  This is required for some of the functions in the function resolver
51  	 * to perform properly.
52  	 */
53  	public static XPath newXPath(Node rootNode) {
54  		XPath xPath = newXPath();
55  		WorkflowFunctionResolver resolver = extractFunctionResolver(xPath);
56  		resolver.setRootNode(rootNode);
57  		return xPath;
58  	}
59  	
60  	/**
61  	 * A utility to extract the WorkflowFunctionResolver from the given XPath instances.  If the XPath instance
62  	 * does not contain a WorkflowFunctionResolver, then this method will throw a WorkflowRuntimeException.
63  	 * 
64  	 * @throws WorkflowRuntimeException if the given XPath instance does not contain a WorklflowFunctionResolver
65  	 */
66  	public static WorkflowFunctionResolver extractFunctionResolver(XPath xPath) {
67  		XPathFunctionResolver resolver = xPath.getXPathFunctionResolver();
68  		if (!hasWorkflowFunctionResolver(xPath)) {
69  			throw new WorkflowRuntimeException("The XPathFunctionResolver on the given XPath instance is not an instance of WorkflowFunctionResolver, was: " + resolver);
70  		}
71  		return (WorkflowFunctionResolver)resolver;
72  	}
73  	
74  	/**
75  	 * Returns true if the given XPath instance has a WorkflowFunctionResolver, false otherwise.
76  	 */
77  	public static boolean hasWorkflowFunctionResolver(XPath xPath) {
78  		return xPath.getXPathFunctionResolver() instanceof WorkflowFunctionResolver;
79  	}
80  	
81  }