Package com.saxonica.ee.stream.feed

Class ItemFeed

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    javax.xml.transform.Result, Receiver
    Direct Known Subclasses:
    ApplyTemplatesAction, ApplyTemplatesFeed, AtomicItemFeed, BooleanFnFeed, BufferingApplyTemplatesFeed, BufferingFeed, BufferingFilterExpressionFeed, BufferingForEachExpressionFeed, CallableFeed, CardinalityCheckingFeed, ComplexNodeEventFeed, ConditionalBlockAdjunct.ConditionalBlockFeed, DecomposingFeed, DelegatingFeed, ExistenceFeed, FeedToEventBuffer, ForEachAction, ForEachGroupPartitionAction, ForExpressionAdjunct.ForExpressionFeed, GroundedItemFeed, ItemCheckingFeed, LiteralAdjunct.LiteralItemFeed, MotionlessFeed, NextIterationFeed, NoCloseFeed, NoOpenFeed, NoOpenOrCloseFeed, ShallowCopyEventFeed, SimpleNodeConstructorFeed, SinkFeed, TryCatchAdjunct.TryCatchFeed
    public abstract class ItemFeed
extends ProxyOutputter
    An ItemFeed evaluates an expression in "composed push" mode. Its streaming input is supplied via a sequence of event calls (start element, end element, etc) that represent the value of the streamed operand of the expression; other operands are evaluated in pull mode in the usual way.

    Expressions are thus evaluated "bottom up": instead of a parent expression triggering the evaluation of its children, the appearance of data needed by a child expression causes evaluation of the child expression, which then triggers evaluation of its parent, and so on.

    One consequence of this is that special mechanisms are needed for error handling. In particular, it's not possible for a child expression to notify its parent expression of dynamic errors simply by throwing a Java exception: the error information needs to be passed up the pipeline in the same way as regular results.

    Some expressions (inspection expressions) are only interested in top-level events: for example count(), exists, and instance of only need to know about a startElement event, they are not interested in the content of the element, only in its existence. Other expressions (absorption expression) need access to the content of the element: in most cases, the typed value of the element, but in some cases (such as copy-of() or snapshot() a finer-grained representation of the content. In such cases the startSelectedParentNode(FleetingParentNode, Location) method (which is notified of a top-level event in the input stream) returns a Receiver, which is then notified of all the contained events up to the corresponding endElement.

    Some expressions (transmission expression) pass data on to their parent expressions directly, and in these cases the decision whether to ask for full details of the content is delegated to the parent expression, or beyond.

    An expression whose result is known before all the input is available (for example, exists() can call a supplied Terminator to indicate that no more input is required. In some cases (where the expression would otherwise read an entire document) this enables parsing of the streamed input file to be abandoned.

    The events passed up the pipeline will usually correspond to nodes in the streamed source document, or to atomic values computed from those nodes. In unusual edge cases, however, a consuming expression may generate new element or document nodes, which are still delivered incrementally because their content is established by streaming the source document. Events representing these constructed elements are passed up the pipeline as if they came from the source document. (Note, because this situation is unusual and somewhat contrived, it probably has incomplete test coverage and may not be fully implemented for all kinds of expression).

    The start of an element may be represented either as a single event containing all the attributes and namespaces, or as a sequence of separate events (start element, attributes, namespaces, then startContent). Events coming directly from parsing the streamed input will use the more efficient "bundled" form, but events representing constructed nodes may be "unbundled" because attributes and namespaces can be constructed incrementally as the streamed input is processed. An ItemFeed for a parent expression should therefore be prepared to accept either form.

    • Constructor Detail

      • ItemFeed

        public ItemFeed​(Outputter result,
                XPathContext context,
                boolean thisIsAnExceptionalCase)
        Special constructor for the last ItemFeed in the pipeline, which feeds into an Outputter rather than into another ItemFeed. Note that the getResult() method in this situation will throw an exception.
        Parameters:
        result - the resulting outputter
        context - the dynamic evaluation context
        thisIsAnExceptionalCase - value is ignored; the parameter is there simply to flag this constructor as a special case

    • Method Detail

      • processItems

        public static void processItems​(SequenceIterator iter,
                                Outputter result)
                         throws XPathException
        Convenience method to process all the items selected by an iterator and push them to the next feed in the push pipeline
        Parameters:
        iter - iterator over the selected items
        result - the next feed in the pipeline
        Throws:
        XPathException - if any dynamic error occurs

      • setExpression

        public void setExpression​(Expression exp)
        Set the expression being evaluated by this ItemFeed
        Parameters:
        exp - the relevant expression

      • getExpression

        public Expression getExpression()
        Get the expression being evaluated by this ItemFeed. May be null if not known or not relevant
        Returns:
        the expression being evaluated

      • setTerminator

        public void setTerminator​(Terminator terminator)
        Provide a callback that can be used to request early termination of the streaming of this input document
        Parameters:
        terminator - the class that can be called to request termination

      • setHasFailed

        public void setHasFailed()
        Mark this feed as having failed (that is, as having detected and reported a dynamic error). Once the feed is marked as having failed, it should not attempt to process any further input.

      • getTerminator

        public Terminator getTerminator()
        Get the Terminator which can be used to request early termination of the Feed
        Returns:
        the Terminator that was passed to the open() call, or null if open() has not been called

      • getResultFeed

        public ItemFeed getResultFeed()
        Get the result, that is, the ItemFeed to which the items in the result of the expression should be supplied
        Returns:
        the Outputter that consumes the results of this expression

      • getContext

        public XPathContext getContext()
        Get the dynamic evaluation context
        Returns:
        the dynamic evaluation context

      • open

        public void open​(Terminator terminator)
          throws XPathException
        Start evaluating the expression. The default implementation does nothing.
        Parameters:
        terminator - used to achieve early exit
        Throws:
        XPathException - if a dynamic error occurs

      • startSelectedParentNode

        public Receiver startSelectedParentNode​(FleetingParentNode node,
                                        Location locationId)
                                 throws XPathException
        Signal that an element or document node has been found that matches the selection that this Watch is looking for. This method is called by the WatchManager while processing the startElement or startDocument event that matches the selection.
        Parameters:
        node - the element or document node whose start event has been matched
        locationId - the location associated with the element or document node (may be the location of the instruction that created it)
        Returns:
        a Receiver to be notified of all events starting with the startElement/startDocument event for the matched element, and ending with the endElement event for that element; or null if this feature is not required.
        Throws:
        XPathException - May be raised if a dynamic error occurs

      • append

        public final void append​(Item item,
                         Location locationId,
                         int properties)
                  throws XPathException
        Supply one item towards the streamed input of the expression. This implementation calls append(Item). Subclasses do not have to cater for this event
        Specified by:
        append in interface Receiver
        Overrides:
        append in class ProxyOutputter
        Parameters:
        item - the item to be supplied
        locationId - the location of the calling instruction, for diagnostics
        properties - if the item is an element node, this indicates whether its namespaces need to be copied. Values are ReceiverOption.ALL_NAMESPACES; the default (0) means
        Throws:
        XPathException - if an error occurs

      • endSelectedParentNode

        public void endSelectedParentNode​(Location locationId)
                           throws XPathException
        Signal that the endElement event has occurred for the element whose startElement event caused the Watch to be activated.
        Parameters:
        locationId - the location of the element
        Throws:
        XPathException - May be raised if a constraint implemented by this Watch is violated

      • dynamicError

        public void dynamicError​(XPathException error)
                  throws XPathException
        Report a dynamic error. This requires searching up the "feed" pipeline to see if there is a try/catch expression interested in being notified of this error; if there is none, the error is thrown as an exception
        Parameters:
        error - the exception representing the dynamic error
        Throws:
        XPathException - if there is no try/catch expression wanting to catch this error

      • hasFailed

        public boolean hasFailed()