can I use XmlSlurper directly on a w3c.dom.Node object - groovy

I am experimenting with GroovyWS in the hope of completely replacing Axis2 client code.
One of the Webservice operations I call returns fragments of XML, which I need to turn into Groovy Beans.
I am getting instances of com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementNSImpl coming out of the WebService call.
I can call new XmlSlurper().parseText(it as String) where it is the instance of ElementNSImpl.
However, of course this writes the Element out to a String before reparsing and slurping it. Is there a way to avoid this unnecessary step ?
Ultimately I want to turn the slurped object into a Groovy Bean; is there a better way to do this. I was wondering about DomToGroovy, but this still gives me a string that I then have run in a Groovy Shell.

I don't think XmlSlurper supports direct conversions like that, you'd probably have to write something yourself. Maybe if you dig in to the XmlSlurper source there will be a way to do it by extending and adding a new parse() method. Otherwise, unless you have major performance concerns, I'd say you're on the right track.

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How to change the Apache POI SXSSFWorkbook default temporary file name

I am using POI's SXSSFWorkbench class to create extremely large workbooks. Multiple processes may be running of my application concurrently, so I thought it prudent to append the processId to the default temporary filename. I don't know how to do that, and could not find any recent coding examples.
Can anyone point me to an example, or outline to me what has to be done? I see there is a static TempFile.createTempFile method. Should I be executing that using a class override before instantiating the SXSSFWorkbook class? Or after?
I also saw there was a DefaultTempFileCreationStrategy class. Could not find examples of how to use this either.
The main class that Apache POI uses for this is TempFile
The method you'll want to call is TempFile.setTempFileCreationStrategy
What you'll need to do is create your own class implementing the interface TempFileCreationStrategy. This is nice and simple, with just two methods, createTempDirectory and createTempFile.
To get an idea of what's involved, you can look at the source code for DefaultTempFileCreationStrategy online here. It's pretty easy, just put in the logic for your own needs in terms of threading and naming.

Customizing a jdbcChannelMessageStore in Spring Integration

I'm relatively new with SI (I say "relatively" because I did some work with SI version 0.6 to 1, but I had to stop then and I'm now on it again in 4.2.5) and for now I'm writing some prototypes for POCs. In one of then I configured a channel backed by a jdbcChannelMessageStore which I wanted to customize in a simple way. To change the column MESSAGE_BYTES from bytea to text.
So I changed the schema-postgresql.sql to include that change and hope that I could only rewrite the jdbc statement for the INSERT. However, even if the statement itself is easily changeable, setting the parameters is not, since it is buried inside a lambda inside the jdbcTemplate.update itself inside the addMessageToGroup method. So the only solution would be to override the entire addMessageToGroup method, which seems not a good solution at all, since it contains more logic than the simple jdbc insert.
So what ended up doing was what I commented on my code as // very big hack. I overriden the DefaultLobHandler to actually not use the lob at all but a setString(...) instead.
So, I have a question and a suggestion:
Is there a way customize the JdbcChannelMessageStore to have our own schema structure and/or our own statements, without using things like this "big hack"?
If there is no better way, can I suggest to at least put the prepared statement fields setters on it's own protected (or public) method, instead of a lambda inside the jdbcUpdate?
Thanks in advance.
We should probably make it easier to override that logic, perhaps by delegating to an overridable method.
Contributions are always welcome :).

How to get data from custom properties in UITestPropertyProvider

According to the code sample on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh552522.aspx) any custom property data that you need to get out of your control should be in a semicolon delimited string in the AccessibleObject's Description property. This does not seem right to me at all. This seems like just a quick and dirty trick to get it working. What is the correct way to get the value of properties from custom controls? And if this actually is how you're supposed to do it, then how are you supposed to set those properties using the SetPropertyValue method? The example in the link above just throws a NotImplementedException in SetPropertyValue.
Since the IAccessible interface has only a limited number of properties the best solution is to cram any extra information into the Description property (that's what they do at the company I work at, and our developers don't work quick and dirty :) ). To modify the return value of this property you have to implement the Iaccessible interface on your control. Or, since you only want to modify the Description property you only need to modify that property and leave the rest to the proxy (I'm not sure how this works exactly but there are tutorials for it on MSDN).
The SetPropertyValue method in the UITestPropertyProvider is for the UItestControls. By overwriting it you can modify the way CUIT interacts with the control during playback. For example, if you overwrite SetPropertyValue for the Text property you can change the way CUIT types strings into the control.

Any refreshable groovy classloader implement?

I am looking for a refreshable groovy classloader,I want to let groovy file change on fly,I know
GroovyScriptEngine do the thing,but if I have AClass.groovy and BClass.groovy, and I write in AClass:
Class pageClass = ClassUtils.forName("BClass", this.getClass().getClassLoader());
and auto reloading BClass is not work when BClass.groovy is not work.
I think the best solution is need a refreshable ClassLoader,but I can not find the exisiting implemention.
And I am not using spring-groovy and grails,I want a independent implemention.
Thanks
Not exactly what you want I'm sure but if you want to do something ONLY with Groovy (no Spring or Grails) that allows you to change stuff and not have to restart your application, you might look at doing some initial work with Groovlets -> http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovlets
This is only for servlet container work and probably won't be extremely useful as your application gets large but it would allow you to initially change things frequently and simply refresh with a call to the Groovlet.
If you did consider using Spring, scripted beans are 'refreshable' and you can implement that yourself using Java's dynamic language support but I'd suggest simply letting Spring do it for you.

Dynamically create class that mocks another class (like remotingProxy) in haxe

I want to be able to dynamically create a new class that has all of the methods of another class. In particular, I want to make my own kind of remoting proxy.
class ApiProxy extends haxe.remoting.Proxy { }
The new class ApiProxy would have all of the same method names and signatures as Api, and would be compile time checked. Only every invocation is done over the wire, instead of handled locally.
I think that remoting.Proxy is a magic internal class - is this true? Do regular users have the ability to define a class that is as powerfully static as this? I've never seen this done in Java and I'm impressed with it's capabilities in Haxe.
How would I implement my own class like remoting.Proxy?
you can achieve this with macros
take a look at this post to get the idea:
http://haxe.1354130.n2.nabble.com/Macros-Are-Awesome-tc5945711.html
You can write, save to filesystem and register a new Class inside of a Macro, based on type information that was passed to the function.
haxe.remoting.Proxy is indeed "magic", it is described that way in the source comments:
http://code.google.com/p/haxe/source/browse/trunk/std/haxe/remoting/Proxy.hx?r=3592
You can't replicate with "normal" haxe code. Adding/modifying functionality to haxe.remoting.Proxy for your own class will be difficult, but maybe not impossible.
Check the tutorial for the "equivalent" api implementing code:
http://haxe.org/doc/remoting/proxy
However, something like this is probably possible with macros:
http://haxe.org/manual/macros
Working with macros is challenging right now. There is little in the way of documentation or examples, and the macro feature is still under development. However, it lets you have a some control over the compiler during the compilation process, which can be amazingly useful at times.
good luck!

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