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1   /*
2    * Copyright 2005-2008 The Kuali Foundation
3    * 
4    * 
5    * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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16   */
17  package org.kuali.rice.kew.rule.xmlrouting;
18  
19  import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
20  import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
21  import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFunctionResolver;
22  
23  import org.kuali.rice.kew.api.WorkflowRuntimeException;
24  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
25  
26  
27  /**
28   * Provides utilities for obtaining XPath instances which are "good-to-go" with access to the Workflow
29   * namespace and custom XPath functions.
30   * 
31   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
32   */
33  public class XPathHelper {
34  
35  	/**
36  	 * Creates a new XPath instance and initializes it with the WorkflowNamespaceContext and the
37  	 * WorkflowFunctionResolver.
38  	 */
39  	public static XPath newXPath() {
40  		XPath xPath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
41  		xPath.setNamespaceContext(new WorkflowNamespaceContext());
42  		WorkflowFunctionResolver resolver = new WorkflowFunctionResolver();
43  		xPath.setXPathFunctionResolver(resolver); 
44  		resolver.setXpath(xPath);
45  		return xPath;
46  	}
47  
48  	/**
49  	 * Creates a new XPath instances and initializes it with the WorkflowNamespaceContext and the
50  	 * WorkflowFunctionResolver.  Also sets the root node on the WorkflowFunctionResolver to 
51  	 * the given Node.  This is required for some of the functions in the function resolver
52  	 * to perform properly.
53  	 */
54  	public static XPath newXPath(Node rootNode) {
55  		XPath xPath = newXPath();
56  		WorkflowFunctionResolver resolver = extractFunctionResolver(xPath);
57  		resolver.setRootNode(rootNode);
58  		return xPath;
59  	}
60  	
61  	/**
62  	 * A utility to extract the WorkflowFunctionResolver from the given XPath instances.  If the XPath instance
63  	 * does not contain a WorkflowFunctionResolver, then this method will throw a WorkflowRuntimeException.
64  	 * 
65  	 * @throws WorkflowRuntimeException if the given XPath instance does not contain a WorklflowFunctionResolver
66  	 */
67  	public static WorkflowFunctionResolver extractFunctionResolver(XPath xPath) {
68  		XPathFunctionResolver resolver = xPath.getXPathFunctionResolver();
69  		if (!hasWorkflowFunctionResolver(xPath)) {
70  			throw new WorkflowRuntimeException("The XPathFunctionResolver on the given XPath instance is not an instance of WorkflowFunctionResolver, was: " + resolver);
71  		}
72  		return (WorkflowFunctionResolver)resolver;
73  	}
74  	
75  	/**
76  	 * Returns true if the given XPath instance has a WorkflowFunctionResolver, false otherwise.
77  	 */
78  	public static boolean hasWorkflowFunctionResolver(XPath xPath) {
79  		return xPath.getXPathFunctionResolver() instanceof WorkflowFunctionResolver;
80  	}
81  	
82  }