xmlbase.h 3.79 KB
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#pragma once

#include <pugixml.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <variant>

namespace osdev {
namespace components {
namespace xml {

/*!
 *  \brief  xml_string_writer
 *          This struct is used to write a pugixml DOM document to a std::string.
 *          pugiXML is not able to do this on its own, but we use the possibility
 *          to dump an xml-document to std::cout.
 */
struct xml_string_writer : pugi::xml_writer
{
    std::string result = std::string();
    virtual void write(const void* data, size_t size) override;
};

/*!
 *  \brief  The XmlBase class describes the base class for all xml related classes.
 *          The basic functionality is implemented here. This class is intrended to
 *          be inherited an d specialized and not to be used directly. ( Nothing bad
 *          will happen, just to make life easier. )
 */
class XmlBase
{
public:
    /*! Default constructor */
    explicit XmlBase(const std::string xmlFile = std::string() );
    virtual ~XmlBase();

    /*!
     *  \brief Parses the xml contents of the string.
     *  \param sxml - String containing the xml-string
     *  \return true if succesful, false if not...
     */
    bool parseString(const std::string &sxml);

    /*!
     *  \brief Parses the contents of the givenm XML-file.
     *  \param sxml - String with the filepath & -name of the xml file.
     *  \return true if succesfull, false if not.
     */
    bool parseFile(const std::string sxml);

    /*!
     *  \brief Adds and XPath expression to the internal structure.
     *  \param sName - Name of the XPath expression. This should be descriptive to make life easier.
     *  \param sXPath - The XPath expression to the specific data we're interested in.
     */
    void addXPath(const std::string &sName, const std::string &sXPath);

    /*!
     *  \brief Retrieves an XPatrh expression from the internal structure
     *  \param sXpathSelect - The name of the XPath expression
     *  \return The XPath expression as stored in the internal Hash.
     */
    std::string getXPath(const std::string &sXpathSelect);


};


}   // End namespace xml
}   // End namespace components
}   // End namespace osdev