Package ptolemy.moml

Interface MoMLFilter

All Known Implementing Classes:

AddEditorFactory, AddIcon, AddMissingParameter, ChangeFixedWidth1ToAuto, ClassChanges, DocAttributeChanges, GRColorChanges, HideAnnotationNames, JavaScriptThisUpdate, LazyTypedCompositeActorChanges, MoMLFilterSimple, MultiportToSinglePort, NamedObjClassesSeen, ParameterNameChanges, PortClassChanges, PortNameChanges, PropertyClassChanges, RelationWidthChanges, RemoveClasses, RemoveGraphicalClasses, RemoveNonPtinyClasses, RemoveProperties, UpdateAnnotations

public interface MoMLFilter

This class filters MoML (modeling markup language) identifiers. It can be used to

Remove graphical classes for use in a non-graphical environment

Change the names of actors and ports for backward compatibility.

Since:

Ptolemy II 2.0

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Christopher Hylands, Edward A. Lee

Pt.AcceptedRating:

Red (cxh)

Pt.ProposedRating:

Red (cxh)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	filterAttributeValue(NamedObj container, java.lang.String element, java.lang.String attributeName, java.lang.String attributeValue, java.lang.String xmlFile)	Given a container, attribute name and attribute value, return a new attribute value.
java.lang.String	filterAttributeValue(NamedObj container, java.lang.String element, java.lang.String attributeName, java.lang.String attributeValue, java.lang.String xmlFile, MoMLParser parser)	Given a container, attribute name and attribute value, return a new attribute value.
void	filterEndElement(NamedObj container, java.lang.String elementName, java.lang.StringBuffer currentCharData, java.lang.String xmlFile)	Make modifications to the specified container, which is defined in a MoML element with the specified name.
void	filterEndElement(NamedObj container, java.lang.String elementName, java.lang.StringBuffer currentCharData, java.lang.String xmlFile, MoMLParser parser)	Make modifications to the specified container, which is defined in a MoML element with the specified name.
java.lang.String	toString()	Return a string that describes what the filter does.

Method Detail

filterAttributeValue

java.lang.String filterAttributeValue(NamedObj container,
                                      java.lang.String element,
                                      java.lang.String attributeName,
                                      java.lang.String attributeValue,
                                      java.lang.String xmlFile)

Given a container, attribute name and attribute value, return a new attribute value. Note that "attribute" means XML attribute, not Ptolemy II attribute. Also, the container is the context of the current of XML element. So, for example, if you have:

    <entity name="foo" class="...">
       <property name="x" value="10"/>
    </entity>
  

then this method will be called twice with the container being the instance "foo". On the first call, the attributeName will be "name" and the attributeValue will be "x". On the second call, attributeName will be "value" and the attributeValue will be "10". To make no change to the attribute value, an implementer should simply return the same attributeValue. To cause the MoMLParser to ignore the current element altogether, an implementer should return null. For example, to skip a graphical class, create a filter that looks for attributeName equal to "class" and attributeValue equal to the class name to skip. Note that if the attributeValue argument is null, then returning null is interpreted as no change, rather than as an indication to skip the element. To change the value of the attribute, simply return a a new value for the attribute.

If modifies the attribute value, then it should call the static method MoMLParser.setModified(true), which indicates that the model was modified so that the user can optionally save the modified model.

Parameters:

container - The container for XML element.

element - The XML element name.

attributeName - The name of the attribute.

attributeValue - The value of the attribute.

xmlFile - The file currently being parsed.

Returns:

A new value for the attribute, or the same value to leave it unchanged, or null to cause the current element to be ignored (unless the attributeValue argument is null).

filterAttributeValue

java.lang.String filterAttributeValue(NamedObj container,
                                      java.lang.String element,
                                      java.lang.String attributeName,
                                      java.lang.String attributeValue,
                                      java.lang.String xmlFile,
                                      MoMLParser parser)

Given a container, attribute name and attribute value, return a new attribute value. Note that "attribute" means XML attribute, not Ptolemy II attribute. Also, the container is the context of the current of XML element. So, for example, if you have:

    <entity name="foo" class="...">
       <property name="x" value="10"/>
    </entity>
  

then this method will be called twice with the container being the instance "foo". On the first call, the attributeName will be "name" and the attributeValue will be "x". On the second call, attributeName will be "value" and the attributeValue will be "10". To make no change to the attribute value, an implementer should simply return the same attributeValue. To cause the MoMLParser to ignore the current element altogether, an implementer should return null. For example, to skip a graphical class, create a filter that looks for attributeName equal to "class" and attributeValue equal to the class name to skip. Note that if the attributeValue argument is null, then returning null is interpreted as no change, rather than as an indication to skip the element. To change the value of the attribute, simply return a a new value for the attribute.

If modifies the attribute value, then it should call the static method MoMLParser.setModified(true), which indicates that the model was modified so that the user can optionally save the modified model.

This method takes a MoMLParser argument, which is optionally used to parse MoML. We have to parse the MoML as opposed to calling the Java classes directly so that ptolemy.moml.filter does not depend on other packages, such as ptolemy.vergil. Derived classes usually call parser.setContext(container) so that the MoML is parsed in the correct context. Note that it is probably not correct to call this method and pass in the current MoMLParser because setContext() calls reset(). Instead, the caller (MoMLParser), creates a MoMLParser instance that is shared amongst all the calls to the MoMLFilter methods that take a MoMLParser argument.

Parameters:

container - The container for XML element.

element - The XML element name.

attributeName - The name of the attribute.

attributeValue - The value of the attribute.

xmlFile - The file currently being parsed.

parser - The MoMLParser that is sometimes used by derived classes. MoMLParser shares a separate MoMLParser between the filters. Each filter should call setContext(container) on the passed-in filter. Since setContext() calls reset(), we don't want to pass in the main MoMLParser. We share one MoMLParser so as to avoid the expense of constructing one each time we read an attribute.

Returns:

A new value for the attribute, or the same value to leave it unchanged, or null to cause the current element to be ignored (unless the attributeValue argument is null).

filterEndElement

void filterEndElement(NamedObj container,
                      java.lang.String elementName,
                      java.lang.StringBuffer currentCharData,
                      java.lang.String xmlFile)
               throws java.lang.Exception

Make modifications to the specified container, which is defined in a MoML element with the specified name. This method is called when an end element in MoML is encountered. A typical use of this method is to make some modification to the object (the container) that was constructed.

If an implementor makes changes to the specified container, then it should call MoMLParser.setModified(true) which indicates that the model was modified so that the user can optionally save the modified model.

Parameters:

container - The object defined by the element that this is the end of.

elementName - The element name.

currentCharData - The character data, which appears only in the doc and configure elements

xmlFile - The file currently being parsed.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - If there is a problem modifying the specified container.

filterEndElement

void filterEndElement(NamedObj container,
                      java.lang.String elementName,
                      java.lang.StringBuffer currentCharData,
                      java.lang.String xmlFile,
                      MoMLParser parser)
               throws java.lang.Exception

Make modifications to the specified container, which is defined in a MoML element with the specified name. This method is called when an end element in MoML is encountered. A typical use of this method is to make some modification to the object (the container) that was constructed.

If an implementor makes changes to the specified container, then it should call MoMLParser.setModified(true) which indicates that the model was modified so that the user can optionally save the modified model.

This method takes a MoMLParser argument, which is optionally used to parse MoML. We have to parse the MoML as opposed to calling the Java classes directly so that ptolemy.moml.filter does not depend on other packages, such as ptolemy.vergil. Derived classes usually call parser.setContext(container) so that the MoML is parsed in the correct context. Note that it is probably not correct to call this method and pass in the current MoMLParser because setContext() calls reset(). Instead, the caller (MoMLParser), creates a MoMLParser instance that is shared amongst all the calls to the MoMLFilter methods that take a MoMLParser argument.

Parameters:

container - The object defined by the element that this is the end of.

elementName - The element name.

currentCharData - The character data, which appears only in the doc and configure elements

xmlFile - The file currently being parsed.

parser - The parser in which MoML is optionally evaluated.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - If there is a problem modifying the specified container.

toString

java.lang.String toString()

Return a string that describes what the filter does.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

A description of the filter (ending with a newline).