Thu, 27 Jan 2005

Try, Fail, Learn, Fail...

A couple quotes that build on this theme...

"If we can get introduced to our ignorance, isn't that something worth celebrating?" --The New Peoplemaking, p. 220, Virginia Satir

"Self-examination is hard, but I believe we can learn more from studying our failures than from our successes." --Project Retrospectives, p. 175, Norm Kerth

"Success, while it may provide encouragement, build confidence, and be joy filled, often teaches an insidious lesson -- to have a high opinion of self. It is from failure that amazing growth and grace so often come, provided only that we can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and try again." --Birth of the Chaordic Age, p. 71, Dee Hock

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Quote Manager Project -- Day 9

I'm trying to hook my new, more tested/able AddButtonActionListener into the QuoteManagerPanel and having some difficulties. Everything compiles but when I inject this anonymous Manager into QuoteManagerPanel, I get nothing after filling out the quote form and clicking 'Add'...

        Manager manager = new Manager() {
            public void newQuote(Quote quote) {
                System.out.println(quote.text);
            }
        };
        QuoteManagerPanel quoterManager = new QuoteManagerPanel(manager);

    public QuoteManagerPanel(Manager manager) {
        setLayout(new GridBagLayout());

        for (int i = 0; i < NUMBER_OF_AUTHORS; i++)
            authorPanels[i] = new PersonPanel("Author " + (i + 1));

        ActionListener actionListener = new AddButtonActionListener(manager,
                                                                    quoteText.getText(),
                                                                    sourcePanel,
                                                                    authorPanels,
                                                                    quoterPanel);
        addButton.addActionListener(actionListener);
        layoutForm();
    }

To complete my current task, I need to add a quote to an XML file. A Manager can handle that. I want to start with a test...

package com.redsquirrel.com.quotes.xml;

import com.redsquirrel.quotes.gui.Manager;
import com.redsquirrel.quotes.model.Person;
import com.redsquirrel.quotes.model.Quote;
import com.redsquirrel.quotes.model.Source;
import org.jmock.MockObjectTestCase;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

public class XmlQuoteManagerTest extends MockObjectTestCase {
    public void testShouldWriteXmlWhenGivenNewQuote() throws ParserConfigurationException, IOException, SAXException {
        String text = "Program to an interface, not an implementation.";
        String isbn = "0201633612";
        String title = "Design Patterns";
        String firstName = "Gang";
        String lastName = "of Four";
        String url = "http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GangOfFour";
        Collection authors = new ArrayList(1);
        authors.add(new Person(firstName, lastName, url));
        Quote quote = new Quote(text, new Source(title, "", isbn), authors, null);

        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document document = builder.parse("stub.xml");

        assertEquals(0, document.getElementsByTagName("quote").getLength());

        Manager manager = new XmlQuoteManager(document);
        manager.newQuote(quote);

        assertEquals(1, document.getElementsByTagName("quote").getLength());
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sample.xsl"?>

<quotes>
</quotes>

package com.redsquirrel.com.quotes.xml;

import com.redsquirrel.quotes.gui.Manager;
import com.redsquirrel.quotes.model.Quote;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

public class XmlQuoteManager implements Manager {
    private final Document document;

    public XmlQuoteManager(Document document) {
        this.document = document;
    }

    public void newQuote(Quote quote) {
        Node root = document.getElementsByTagName("quotes").item(0);

        Node quoteNode = ????
        root.appendChild(quoteNode);
    }
}

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