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Plist File Parsing Using Java

Below example illustrates , how to iterate over a plist file Nodes using apache's   XMLPropertyListConfiguration

  public void infoPlistConversion(String plistPath) throws Exception {
        XMLPropertyListConfiguration conf = new XMLPropertyListConfiguration(plistPath);
        System.out.println("root node children size => "+ conf.getRootNode().getChildrenCount());
        System.out.println("conf root => " + conf.getRootNode().getChild(0).getName());
        System.out.println("conf.getRoot().getChild(0).getValue() => " + conf.getRootNode().getChild(0).getValue());
        List children = conf.getRoot().getChildren();
        printChildrenValue(children);
    }
   
    private void printChildrenValue(List children) {
        if (children instanceof List) {
            List<PListNode> configs = (List<PListNode>) children;
            for (PListNode pListNode : configs) {
                // sub nodes
                if (pListNode.getValue() == null && pListNode.getChildrenCount() > 1) {
                    List pListNodeChildren = pListNode.getChildren();
                    System.out.println("-------------------------------------------------");
                    System.out.println("plist Name root => "+ pListNode.getName());
                    printChildrenValue(pListNodeChildren);
                // just print values
                } else {
                    // if it is ConfigParam and elements are not null
                    System.out.println("plist Name => "+ pListNode.getName());
                    System.out.println("plist Value => "+ pListNode.getValue());
                }
            }
        }
    }

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Kaleeswaran.S

I am developing a maven based web application. i am running the application with tomcat maven plugin like

mvn tomcat:run

I want to debug the application from eclipse.

Step 1:

export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m" which allocates 512 MB of memory.

Step 2:

export MAVEN_OPTS="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,address=2480,server=y,suspend=n"

Step 3:

run the application like mvn tomcat:run

step 4:

connect to port 2480 in eclipse remote debugging.

Enjoy. Happy Debugging.

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Regards,
Kaleeswaran.S

Hi,

Jdom CRUD Operations

Here is sample code to do some operations like
   
//Adding elements
    public void addElementAtXpath() {
        try {
            XPath xpath = XPath.newInstance("publishers");
            xpath.addNamespace(root_.getNamespace());
            Element publisherNode = (Element) xpath.selectSingleNode(root_);
            org.jdom.Element element = new Element("kalees");
            element.addContent(createElement(CI_FILE_RELEASE_OVERRIDE_AUTH_NODE, TRUE));
            publisherNode.addContent(element);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
   
// Changing attributes
    public void changeAttributeValue() {
        try {
            XPath xpath = XPath.newInstance("scm");
            xpath.addNamespace(root_.getNamespace());
            Element scmNode = (Element) xpath.selectSingleNode(root_);
            scmNode.setAttribute("class", "Kalees");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
   
//Deleting Elements
    public void deleteElementAtXpath() {
        //deleting a node...
        // deleting content of a node
        //triggerNode.removeContent();
        try {
            String childName = "hudson.plugins.emailext.ExtendedEmailPublisher";
            XPath xpath = XPath.newInstance("publishers");
            xpath.addNamespace(root_.getNamespace());
            Element triggerNode = (Element) xpath.selectSingleNode(root_); // if it is null then element is not present
            triggerNode.removeChild(childName);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public static Element createElement(String nodeName, String NodeValue) {
        org.jdom.Element element = new Element(nodeName);
        if (NodeValue != null) {
            element.addContent(NodeValue);
        }
        return element;
    }
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Eclisep Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOf

If you face this issue in eclipse while running a standalone java application. Eclipse will allocate only 384 MB of Java heap memory. based on the type of JRE you are using and eclipse plugin and application size, this issue occurs. we have to increase heap memory size. To increase the available heap memory, right click your java progrram click "run as -> run configurations" . click argument tab and type -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M in VM arguments field. This increases VM size while running from eclipse.





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Kaleeswaran.S

JDOM - How to insert an element, after another

    private Document document_ = null;
    private Element root_ = null;

    @Test
    public void generateXml() {
        //Url path of the file
        String filePath = "http://172.................. .xml";
        testXmlGeneration(filePath);
    }
   
    private void testXmlGeneration(String url) {
        try {
            SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
            // giving xml file url to jdom for parsing
            document_ = builder.build(url);
            root_ = document_.getRootElement();

            // creating necessary elements which is to be appended at a particular point of the location in xml
            org.jdom.Element element = new Element("release");
            element.addContent(createElement("override", "true"));
            element.addContent(createElement("url", "http://outside.out.coml"));
            element.addContent(createElement("username", "kaleeswaran"));
            element.addContent(createElement("password", "xm0QczqM6k9x10Os1z0k="));
            element.addContent(createElement("rpackage", "PackageRed"));
            element.addContent(createElement("release", "release"));
            element.addContent(createElement("file__patterns", null).addContent(createElement("hudson.plugins.collabnet.documentuploader.FilePattern", "*.zip")));
           
            // i want to add the generated elements after the publish tag in the xml
            XPath xpath = XPath.newInstance("publish");
            xpath.addNamespace(root_.getNamespace());
            Element pullisherNode = (Element) xpath.selectSingleNode(root_);
            // here specify the index value where the element should be added and pass the element
            pullisherNode.getContent().add(3, element);
           
           
            File dest = new File("/Users/kaleeswaran/Desktop/gonfig.xml");
            InputStream configAsStream = getConfigAsStream();
            ciManager.streamToFile(dest, configAsStream) ;
            System.out.println("new value added =======> " + url);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
   
    public static Element createElement(String nodeName, String NodeValue) {
        org.jdom.Element element = new Element(nodeName);
        if (NodeValue != null) {
            element.addContent(NodeValue);
        }
        return element;
    }
   
    public InputStream getConfigAsStream() throws IOException {
        XMLOutputter xmlOutput = new XMLOutputter();
        ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        xmlOutput.output(document_, outputStream);
       
        return new ByteArrayInputStream(outputStream.toByteArray());
    }
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Regards,
Kaleeswaran.S