4.46. Configuring Transformations
- Access the HTML Reporting Tool when determining selector values. It helps you visualise the input message model (against which the selectors will be applied) as seen by Smooks.
- Generate a report using your Source data, but with an empty transformation configuration. In the report, you can see the model against which you need to add your configurations. Add the configurations one at a time, rerunning the report to check they are being applied.
- Add the configurations one at a time, rerunning the report to check they are being applied.
- As a result, a configuration that looks like this will be generated (note the
$TODO$tokens):<?xml version="1.0"?> <smooks-resource-list xmlns="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks-1.1.xsd" xmlns:jb="http://www.milyn.org/xsd/smooks/javabean-1.4.xsd"> <jb:bean beanId="order" class="org.milyn.javabean.Order" createOnElement="$TODO$"> <jb:wiring property="header" beanIdRef="header" /> <jb:wiring property="orderItems" beanIdRef="orderItems" /> <jb:wiring property="orderItemsArray" beanIdRef="orderItemsArray" /> </jb:bean> <jb:bean beanId="header" class="org.milyn.javabean.Header" createOnElement="$TODO$"> <jb:value property="date" decoder="$TODO$" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:value property="customerNumber" decoder="Long" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:value property="customerName" decoder="String" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:value property="privatePerson" decoder="Boolean" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:wiring property="order" beanIdRef="order" /> </jb:bean> <jb:bean beanId="orderItems" class="java.util.ArrayList" createOnElement="$TODO$"> <jb:wiring beanIdRef="orderItems_entry" /> </jb:bean> <jb:bean beanId="orderItems_entry" class="org.milyn.javabean.OrderItem" createOnElement="$TODO$"> <jb:value property="productId" decoder="Long" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:value property="quantity" decoder="Integer" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:value property="price" decoder="Double" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:wiring property="order" beanIdRef="order" /> </jb:bean> <jb:bean beanId="orderItemsArray" class="org.milyn.javabean.OrderItem[]" createOnElement="$TODO$"> <jb:wiring beanIdRef="orderItemsArray_entry" /> </jb:bean> <jb:bean beanId="orderItemsArray_entry" class="org.milyn.javabean.OrderItem" createOnElement="$TODO$"> <jb:value property="productId" decoder="Long" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:value property="quantity" decoder="Integer" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:value property="price" decoder="Double" data="$TODO$" /> <jb:wiring property="order" beanIdRef="order" /> </jb:bean> </smooks-resource-list>NoteThere is no guarantee as to the exact contents of a JavaResult instance after calling the Smooks.filterSource method. After calling this method, the JavaResult instance will contain the final contents of the bean context, which can be added to by any Visitor implementation.
