I am working on XML file parsing and I am using SAX parser. I have created XMLParser class. In that I have,
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In CustomDefaultHandler, after parsing, I have stored all data in List of custom objects, now I want this list in my other class to do some business processing and ultimately saving into DB. How can I pass it? The default parse method returns void (understandably). One way I can think of is creating static list object List<CustomObject> customObject in XMLParser class and setting its value in CustomDefaultHandler class.
Your CustomDefaultHandler has an instance variable containing a List<Whatsit>, then? If that's what you were saying, then add a method to CustomDefaultHandler which returns that List. Like this:
Then after the parsing is finished (i.e. after the "sp.parse" line of code) you just call that method and you've got your list. Of course you'll have to keep a reference to the CustomDefaultHandler object, rather than just throwing it away like you do, so you can call that method after parsing.
Yeah, it does make sense. You have an instance variable that you want to make available to outside world. Use getter method. Simple! I don't know why it did not occur to me. Thank you Paul.
My guess: You were thinking of CustomDataHandler as a class which was doing things, directing the progress of the program. And therefore you wanted to have it direct the end result to your XMLParser class. (Hence your speculations about copying the result to a static variable there.)
Whereas if you think of it as a class whose responsibility is to just do things when it's given little bits of data (which is what a SAX DataHandler really is) then it's obvious that it should also be asked to return the results of what it did.
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