com.jayway.restassured.path.xml.element
Interface PathElement

All Superinterfaces:

Iterable<String>

All Known Subinterfaces:

Node, NodeChildren

All Known Implementing Classes:

NodeChildrenImpl, NodeImpl

public interface PathElement
extends Iterable<String>

Base object for all XML objects.

Method Summary

<T> T	get(String name) Get a value from the current XML object.
Node	getNode(String name) Get a Node whose name matches the supplied name from the current XML object.
List<Node>	getNodes(String name) Get a list of Node's whose name matches the supplied name from the current XML object.

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Iterable

iterator

Method Detail

get

<T> T get(String name)

Get a value from the current XML object.

This method returns the child whose name matches name. If several children matches the name then a List of Node's are returned.

If this object is a Node and you want to return an attribute value you need to prefix the name with an @. E.g. given

   <category type="present">
      <item when="Aug 10">
         <name>Kathryn's Birthday</name>
         <price>200</price>
      </item>
   </category>
 

then

  String type = node.get("@type");
 

will return "present".

Type Parameters:

T - The expected type of the return value.

Parameters:

name - The name of the child, children or attribute.

Returns:

A Node, a list of nodes, an attribute value or null if not found.

getNode

Node getNode(String name)

Get a Node whose name matches the supplied name from the current XML object.

Note that there's no guarantee that this method actually will return a Node. It could result in a .

Parameters:

name - The name of the Node to get.

Returns:

The Node matching the name or null if non were found.

getNodes

List<Node> getNodes(String name)

Get a list of Node's whose name matches the supplied name from the current XML object.

Parameters:

name - The name of the Nodes to get.

Returns:

The Node matching the name or an empty list of non were found.