com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils

Class XpathUtil

java.lang.Object

com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.utils.XpathUtil

public final class XpathUtil
extends Object

Contains utility methods for xpath.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static String	getTextAttributeValue(DetailAST ast) Returns content of the text attribute of the ast element.
static String	printXpathBranch(String xpath, File file) Returns xpath query results on file as string.
static boolean	supportsTextAttribute(DetailAST ast) Checks, if specified node can have @text attribute.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

supportsTextAttribute

public static boolean supportsTextAttribute(DetailAST ast)

Checks, if specified node can have @text attribute.

Parameters:

ast - DetailAst element

Returns:

true if element supports @text attribute, false otherwise

getTextAttributeValue

public static String getTextAttributeValue(DetailAST ast)

Returns content of the text attribute of the ast element.

Parameters:

ast - DetailAst element

Returns:

text attribute of the ast element

printXpathBranch

public static String printXpathBranch(String xpath,
                                      File file)
                               throws CheckstyleException,
                                      IOException

Returns xpath query results on file as string.

Parameters:

xpath - query to evaluate

file - file to run on

Returns:

all results as string separated by delimiter

Throws:

CheckstyleException - if some parsing error happens

IOException - if an error occurs