wso2bpel-ext/wso2bpel-core/BPEL4RESTLight/src/main/java/de/unistuttgart/iaas/xml/XPathEvaluator.java

   1 /**
   2  *
   3  * Copyright 2011 IAAS University of Stuttgart <br>
   4  * <br>
   5  *
   6  * @author uwe.breitenbuecher@iaas.uni-stuttgart.de
   7  *
   8  */
   9 package de.unistuttgart.iaas.xml;
  10
  11 import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
  12 import javax.xml.xpath.XPath;
  13 import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactory;
  14
  15
  16 public class XPathEvaluator {
  17
  18         public static XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();
  19
  20
  21         @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  22         public static <t> t evaluate(String expression, Object source, QName returnType) {
  23
  24                 Object resultAsObject = null;
  25                 try {
  26                         resultAsObject = xpath.evaluate(expression, source, returnType);
  27
  28                 } catch (Exception e) {
  29                         e.printStackTrace();
  30                 }
  31                 return (t) resultAsObject;
  32         }
  33
  34 }