I think Im almost there with the tree..please let mw know what you think

[Matt Kohanek]

- - I feel like I am getting close with this finally - -

So as someone at the company Im doing this for so succinctly put it:

"Why not just build up the tree from the objects returned by simpleXML?

1) Call Web service
2) Use simple to parse XML into objects
3) loop through objects and add to TreeNode data"


Here I have a class to set a tree node with setters and getters:

public class XMLTreeDataBuilderTest {
	
	
	private TreeNode data;
	
	public void setData(TreeNode data) {
		this.data = data;
	}

	public TreeNode getData() {
		return data;
	}

	
}    

edit - continued in reply

[Matt Kohanek]

Or here we go -

I have

public class DeviceCollectionXMLAO { 

        public DeviceCollection readXML(InputStream xml) throws Exception { 
                Serializer serializer = new Persister(); 

                DeviceCollection deviceCollection = null; 
                deviceCollection = serializer.read(DeviceCollection.class, xml); 
                xml.close(); 
                return deviceCollection; 
        } 
    

to get the data from the service, and then this to parse it:

DeviceCollectionXMLAO access = new DeviceCollectionXMLAO(); 
        DeviceCollection deviceCollection = access.readXML(method.getResponseBodyAsStream());    

So now I need to use this to set the value of data:

public static void updateNode() {
		XMLTreeDataBuilderTest node1 = new XMLTreeDataBuilderTest();
		node1.setData(deviceId);
		}    

my problem I guess is what should go in node1.setData();

I think it will be one of three things:

node.setData(node.getChild(deviceId));

or

node.setData(data.getChild(deviceId));

or

node.setData(deviceCollection.getChild(deviceId));

Im playng around with it now, so hopefully I will have the answer on my own soon, but please let me know if you see me going wrong somewhere

[Matt Kohanek]

Hmm

Ok I have a DeviceCollection class that looks like this:

@Root
public class DeviceCollection {
	
	static String devicesUrl = "http://webc-apps.ni.com/measure/1.01/devices";
	
	@ElementList(inline = true) 
    private Collection<Device> devices;	
	
	//get devices
	public Collection<Device> getDevices() {
		return devices;
	}

	//set devices
	public void setDevices(Collection<Device> devices) {
		this.devices = devices;
	}	

}    

And if I use simplexml to parse the follwoing into this list object:

<deviceCollection>
   <device>
      <deviceId>exampleDevice1</deviceId>
      <name>Example Device 1</name>
   </device>
</deviceCollection>
    

What is this list going to look like? I need to study up more on java collections I think..
Im doing so now but if anyone can help clear it up it will save me some time