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<h1 class="page"><code>XmlSnapshotService</code></h1>
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<p>The <code>XmlSnapshotService</code> provides the capability to generate XML snapshots (and if required corresponding XSD schemas) based on graphs of domain objects.</p>
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<p>Typical use cases include creating mementos for business-focused auditing, such that a report could be generated as to which end-user performed a business action (perhaps for legal reasons).
For one system that we know of, a digest of this snapshot of data is signed with the public encryption key so as to enforce non-repudiation.</p>
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<p>Another use case is to grab raw data such that it could be merged into a report template or communication.</p>
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<p>The service offers a basic API to create a snapshot of a single object, and an more flexible API that allows the size of the graph to be customized.</p>
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<p>The (basic) API of <code>XmlSnapshotService</code> is:</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code>public interface XmlSnapshotService {
XmlSnapshotService.Snapshot snapshotFor( <i class="conum" data-value="1"></i><b>(1)</b>
final Object domainObject);
XmlSnapshotService.Snapshot.Builder builderFor( <i class="conum" data-value="2"></i><b>(2)</b>
final Object domainObject);
&lt;T&gt; T getChildElementValue( <i class="conum" data-value="3"></i><b>(3)</b>
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final Class&lt;T&gt; expectedCls);
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<td>exports the state of a domain object into a <code>Snapshot</code> (which can then be converted into XML, for example).</td>
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<td>creates a <code>Snapshot.Builder</code> that allows the contents of the snapshot to include other related state.</td>
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<td>Convenience method to extract the value of an XML element, based on its type attribute (<code>isis:xxx</code>).</td>
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<p>where <code>Snapshot</code> is:</p>
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Document getXmlDocument(); <i class="conum" data-value="1"></i><b>(1)</b>
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void includePath(final String path); <i class="conum" data-value="1"></i><b>(1)</b>
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<p>The general <a href="#usage">usage</a> and the usage of <a href="#builder-api">builder</a> in particular is described below.</p>
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<p>The framework provides a default implementation of this service, <code>o.a.i.core.runtimeservices.xmlsnapshot.XmlSnapshotServiceDefault</code>.</p>
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<p>The most straight-forward usage of this service is simply:</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">XmlSnapshot snapshot = xmlsnapshotService.snapshotFor(customer);
Element customerAsXml = snapshot.getXmlElement();</code></pre>
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<p>This will return an XML (document) element that contains the names and values of each of the customer&#8217;s value properties, along with the titles of reference properties, and also the number of items in collections.</p>
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<p>As well as obtaining the XML snapshot, it is also possible to obtain an XSD schema that the XML snapshot conforms to.</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code>XmlSnapshot snapshot = ...;
Element customerAsXml = snapshot.getXmlElement();
Element customerXsd = snapshot.getXsdElement();</code></pre>
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<p>This can be useful for some tools.
For example, <a href="http://www.altova.com/stylevision.html">Altova Stylevision</a> can use the XML and XSD to transform into reports.
Please note that this link does not imply endorsement (nor even a recommendation that this is a good design).</p>
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<p>The contents of the snapshot can be adjusted by including "paths" to other references or collections.
To do this, the builder is used.
The API for this is:</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">public interface XmlSnapshotService {
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public interface Builder {
void includePath(final String path);
void includePathAndAnnotation(String path, String annotation);
XmlSnapshotService.Snapshot build();
}
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<p>We start by obtaining a builder:</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">XmlSnapshot.Builder builder = xmlsnapshotService.builderFor(customer);</code></pre>
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<p>Suppose now that we want the snapshot to also include details of the customer&#8217;s address, where <code>address</code> in this case is a reference property to an instance of the <code>Address</code> class.
We can "walk-the-graph" by including these references within the builder.</p>
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<p>We could then go further and include details of every order in the customer&#8217;s <code>orders</code> collection, and details of every product of every order:</p>
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<p>When all paths are included, then the builder can build the snapshot:</p>
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<p>All of this can be strung together in a fluent API:</p>
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<pre class="highlightjs highlight"><code class="language-java hljs" data-lang="java">Element customerAsXml = xmlsnapshotService.builderFor(customer)
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.includePath("orders/product")
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<p>If the domain object being snapshotted implements the <code>SnapshottableWithInclusions</code> interace, then this moves the responsibility for determining what is included within the snapshot from the caller to the snapshottable object itself:</p>
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<p>As an alternative to using <code>include()</code>, you might consider building a view model domain object which can reference only the relevant information required for the snapshot.
For example, if only the 5 most recent Orders for a Customer were required, a <code>CustomerAndRecentOrders</code> view model could hold a collection of just those 5 <code>Order</code>s.
Typically such view models would implement <code>SnapshottableWithInclusions</code>.</p>
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<p>One reason for doing this is to provide a stable API between the domain model and whatever it is that might be consuming the XML. With a view model you can refactor the domain entities but still preserve a view model such that the XML is the same.</p>
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<p>The core framework provides an implementation of this service (<code>o.a.i.core.runtime.services.xmlsnapshot.XmlSnapshotServiceDefault</code>).</p>
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