org.xmldb.api.reference

Class DatabaseImpl

public class DatabaseImpl extends SimpleDatabase

Reference Database implmentation. The reference Database simply resides on the file system. It isn't speedy but it serves the purpose of illustrating how a driver should work..

The path where the data files are located is specified through the property xmldb.data.dir. If this property is not specified it defaults to a directory named data in the current working directory. If the directory does not exist an attempt will be made to create it.

Field Summary
protected static String	DATA_PREFIX The default directory to look for to find the data files.
protected static String	DIR_PROP The property to look for to set the directory
protected static String	SEP The characters expected to separate the INSTANCE_NAME from the file system path

Method Summary
Collection	getCollection(String uri, String username, String password) Retrieves a `Collection` instance based on the URI provided in the `uri` parameter.

Field Detail

DATA_PREFIX

protected static final String DATA_PREFIX

The default directory to look for to find the data files.

DIR_PROP

protected static final String DIR_PROP

The property to look for to set the directory

SEP

protected static final String SEP

The characters expected to separate the INSTANCE_NAME from the file system path

Method Detail

getCollection

public Collection getCollection(String uri, String username, String password)

Retrieves a Collection instance based on the URI provided in the uri parameter. The URI format for this implementation is ref:///path where path is a path in the file system. To locate the data files the database expects a directory data to exist in the current directory.

Parameters: uri the URI to use to locate the collection.

Returns: The Collection instance