diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/ws/soap/axiom/AxiomContentHandler.java b/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/ws/soap/axiom/AxiomContentHandler.java
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-/*
- * Copyright 2006 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom;
-
-import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
-import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
-
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMAttribute;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMContainer;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMElement;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMFactory;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMNamespace;
-import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
-import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
-import org.xml.sax.Locator;
-import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
-
-import org.springframework.util.Assert;
-import org.springframework.xml.namespace.QNameUtils;
-
-/**
- * Specific SAX ContentHandler that adds the resulting AXIOM OMElement to a specified parent element when
- * endDocument is called. Used for returing SAXResults from Axiom elements.
- *
- * @author Arjen Poutsma
- * @since 1.0.0
- */
-class AxiomContentHandler implements ContentHandler {
-
- private final OMFactory factory;
-
- private final List elements = new ArrayList();
-
- private Map namespaces = new HashMap();
-
- private final OMContainer container;
-
- AxiomContentHandler(OMContainer container, OMFactory factory) {
- Assert.notNull(container, "'container' must not be null");
- Assert.notNull(factory, "'factory' must not be null");
- this.factory = factory;
- this.container = container;
- }
-
- private OMContainer getParent() {
- if (!elements.isEmpty()) {
- return (OMContainer) elements.get(elements.size() - 1);
- }
- else {
- return container;
- }
- }
-
- public void startPrefixMapping(String prefix, String uri) throws SAXException {
- namespaces.put(prefix, uri);
- }
-
- public void endPrefixMapping(String prefix) throws SAXException {
- namespaces.remove(prefix);
- }
-
- public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
- OMContainer parent = getParent();
- OMElement element = factory.createOMElement(localName, null, parent);
- for (Iterator iterator = namespaces.entrySet().iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
- Map.Entry entry = (Map.Entry) iterator.next();
- String prefix = (String) entry.getKey();
- if (prefix.length() == 0) {
- element.declareDefaultNamespace((String) entry.getValue());
- }
- else {
- element.declareNamespace((String) entry.getValue(), prefix);
- }
- }
- QName qname = QNameUtils.toQName(uri, qName);
- element.setLocalName(qname.getLocalPart());
- element.setNamespace(element.findNamespace(qname.getNamespaceURI(), qname.getPrefix()));
- for (int i = 0; i < atts.getLength(); i++) {
- QName attrName = QNameUtils.toQName(atts.getURI(i), atts.getQName(i));
- String value = atts.getValue(i);
- if (!atts.getQName(i).startsWith("xmlns")) {
- OMNamespace namespace = factory.createOMNamespace(attrName.getNamespaceURI(), attrName.getPrefix());
- OMAttribute attribute = factory.createOMAttribute(attrName.getLocalPart(), namespace, value);
- element.addAttribute(attribute);
- }
- }
-
- elements.add(element);
- }
-
- public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
- elements.remove(elements.size() - 1);
- }
-
- public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length) throws SAXException {
- String data = new String(ch, start, length);
- OMContainer parent = getParent();
- factory.createOMText(parent, data);
- }
-
- public void processingInstruction(String target, String data) throws SAXException {
- OMContainer parent = getParent();
- factory.createOMProcessingInstruction(parent, target, data);
- }
-
- /*
- * Unsupported
- */
-
- public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {
- }
-
- public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
- }
-
- public void endDocument() throws SAXException {
- }
-
- public void ignorableWhitespace(char ch[], int start, int length) throws SAXException {
- }
-
- public void skippedEntity(String name) throws SAXException {
- }
-
-}
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/springframework/ws/soap/axiom/AxiomContentHandlerTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/springframework/ws/soap/axiom/AxiomContentHandlerTest.java
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-/*
- * Copyright 2006 the original author or authors.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.springframework.ws.soap.axiom;
-
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.StringReader;
-
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMAbstractFactory;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMDocument;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMElement;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMFactory;
-import org.apache.axiom.om.OMNamespace;
-import org.custommonkey.xmlunit.XMLTestCase;
-import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
-import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
-import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderFactory;
-
-public class AxiomContentHandlerTest extends XMLTestCase {
-
- private static final String XML_1 = "" + "" +
- "" +
- "content" +
- "";
-
- private static final String XML_2_EXPECTED = "" + "" +
- "" + "";
-
- private static final String XML_2_SNIPPET =
- "" + "";
-
- private AxiomContentHandler handler;
-
- private OMDocument result;
-
- private XMLReader xmlReader;
-
- private OMFactory factory;
-
- protected void setUp() throws Exception {
- factory = OMAbstractFactory.getOMFactory();
- result = factory.createOMDocument();
- xmlReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
- }
-
- public void testContentHandlerDocumentNamespacePrefixes() throws Exception {
- xmlReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", true);
- handler = new AxiomContentHandler(result, factory);
- xmlReader.setContentHandler(handler);
- xmlReader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(XML_1)));
- ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
- result.serialize(bos);
- assertXMLEqual("Invalid result", XML_1, bos.toString("UTF-8"));
- }
-
- public void testContentHandlerDocumentNoNamespacePrefixes() throws Exception {
- xmlReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", false);
- handler = new AxiomContentHandler(result, factory);
- xmlReader.setContentHandler(handler);
- xmlReader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(XML_1)));
- ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
- result.serialize(bos);
- assertXMLEqual("Invalid result", XML_1, bos.toString("UTF-8"));
- }
-
- public void testContentHandlerElement() throws Exception {
- OMNamespace namespace = factory.createOMNamespace("namespace", "");
- OMElement rootElement = factory.createOMElement("root", namespace, result);
- handler = new AxiomContentHandler(rootElement, factory);
- xmlReader.setContentHandler(handler);
- xmlReader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(XML_2_SNIPPET)));
- ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
- result.serialize(bos);
- assertXMLEqual("Invalid result", XML_2_EXPECTED, bos.toString("UTF-8"));
- }
-}
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