com.splunk.modularinput
Class Parameter

java.lang.Object
  com.splunk.modularinput.Parameter

Direct Known Subclasses:

MultiValueParameter, SingleValueParameter

public abstract class Parameter
extends java.lang.Object

The Parameter class is a base class for parameters of modular inputs. It has two subclasses: SingleValueParameter and MultiValueParameter. All parameters should be constructed with the static nodeToParameterList method, which takes an XML org.w3c.dom.Node object as its argument and returns a list of Parameter objects, single valued or multi valued as needed.

Method Summary

abstract java.lang.String	getName()
static java.util.List<Parameter>	nodeToParameterList(org.w3c.dom.Node node) Generates a list of Parameter objects from an org.w3c.dom.Node object containing a set of parameters.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getName

public abstract java.lang.String getName()

nodeToParameterList

public static java.util.List<Parameter> nodeToParameterList(org.w3c.dom.Node node)
                                                     throws MalformedDataException

Generates a list of Parameter objects from an org.w3c.dom.Node object containing a set of parameters. The node may be any element, but is expected to contain elements param or param_list, as in value1 value2 0 default value1 value2

Parameters:

node - An org.w3c.dom.Node object containing the parameter list as children.

Returns:

A list of Parameter objects extracted from the XML.

Throws:

MalformedDataException - If the XML does not specify a valid parameter list.