php-doc-en/reference/sdo/examples.xml

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<chapter xml:id="sdo.examples" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
 &reftitle.examples;
 <section xml:id="sdo.examples-basic">
  <title>Basic usage</title>
  <para>
   The examples below assume an SDO created with the schema
   and instance information shown below, using the XML Data Access Service.
  </para>
  <para>
   The instance document below describes a single company, 
   called 'MegaCorp', which contains a single department, 
   called 'Advanced Technologies'.
   The Advanced Technologies department contains three employees.
   The company employeeOfTheMonth is referencing the second employee,
   'Jane Doe'.
  </para>
  <para>
   <programlisting role="xml">
<![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<company xmlns="companyNS" name="MegaCorp" 
  employeeOfTheMonth="E0003">
  <departments name="Advanced Technologies" location="NY" number="123">
    <employees name="John Jones" SN="E0001"/>
    <employees name="Jane Doe" SN="E0003"/>
    <employees name="Al Smith" SN="E0004" manager="true"/>
  </departments>
</company>
]]>
   </programlisting>
  </para>
  <para> The root element of the schema is a company. The company contains departments, and
   each department contains employees. Each element has a number of attributes to store
   things like name, serial number, and so on. Finally, the company also has an IDREF
   attribute which identifies one of the employees as the 'employeeOfTheMonth'.
  </para>
  <para>
   <programlisting role="xml">
<![CDATA[
<xsd:schema  
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:sdo="commonj.sdo"
  xmlns:sdoxml="commonj.sdo/xml"
  xmlns:company="companyNS"
  targetNamespace="companyNS">
  <xsd:element name="company" type="company:CompanyType"/>
  <xsd:complexType name="CompanyType">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="departments" type="company:DepartmentType" 
        maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="employeeOfTheMonth" type="xsd:IDREF" 
      sdoxml:propertyType="company:EmployeeType"/> 
  </xsd:complexType>
  <xsd:complexType name="DepartmentType">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="employees" type="company:EmployeeType"  
        maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
    <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="location" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="number" type="xsd:int"/>
  </xsd:complexType>
  <xsd:complexType name="EmployeeType">
    <xsd:attribute name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="SN" type="xsd:ID"/>
    <xsd:attribute name="manager" type="xsd:boolean"/>
  </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>
]]>
   </programlisting>
  </para>
  <para>The XML Data Access Service maps the schema to an SDO. Attributes such as "name"
   become primitive properties, the sequence of employees becomes a many-valued
   containment relationship, and so on. Note that the containment relationships are
   expressed as one complex type within another, whereas non-containment references are
   expressed in terms of ID and IDREF, with a special
   <command>sdoxml:propertyType</command> attribute specifying the type of the
   non-containment reference.
  </para>
 </section>

 <section xml:id="sdo.sample.getset">
  <title>Setting and Getting Property Values</title>
  <para> The following examples assume
   <command>$company</command> is the root of a tree of data objects created from the
   schema and instance document shown above.
  </para>
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Access via property name</title>
    <para>
     Data object properties can be accessed using the object property
     access syntax.  The following sets the company name to 'Acme'.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.propname">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$company->name = 'Acme';
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Access via property name as array index</title>
    <para>We can also access properties using associative array syntax. The simplest
     form of this uses the property name as the array index. For example, the following sets
     the company name and gets the employeeOfTheMonth.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.simplexpath">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$company['name'] = 'UltraCorp';
$eotm = $company['employeeOfTheMonth'];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Data Object iteration</title>
    <para>
     We can iterate over the properties of a data object using &foreach;.
     The following iterates over the properties of the employee of the month.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.doiter">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  $eotm = $company->employeeOfTheMonth;
  foreach ($eotm as $name => $value) {
      echo "$name: $value\n";
  }
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para> 
     which will output:
    </para>     
    <programlisting xml:id="sdo.examples.doiter-output">
<![CDATA[
name: Jane Doe
SN: E0003
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para> 
     The 'manager' property is not output, because it has not been set.
    </para>
   </example>
  </para>
  
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Access many-valued property by name</title>
    <para> Many-valued data object properties can also be accessed using the object
     property name syntax. The following gets the list of departments.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.mvpname">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$departments = $company->departments;
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
  
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Many-valued element access</title>
    <para>
     We can access individual elements of many-valued properties using array
     syntax. The following accesses the first department in the company.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.mvaccess">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$ad_tech_dept = $company->departments[0];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Many-valued property iteration</title>
    <para>
     Many-valued properties can also be iterated over using
     &foreach;.  The following iterates over the company's departments.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.mvpiter">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  foreach ($company->departments as $department) {
    // ...
  }
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para>
     Each iteration will assign the next department in the
     list to the variable <command>$department</command>.
    </para>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Chained property access</title>
    <para> We can chain property references on a single line. 
     The following sets and gets the name of the first department.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.nestedprop">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  $company->departments[0]->name = 'Emerging Technologies';
  $dept_name = $company->departments[0]->name;
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para>Using the associative array syntax, this is equivalent to</para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.chainarray">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  $company['departments'][0]['name'] = 'Emerging Technologies';
  $dept_name = $company['departments'][0]['name'];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para> In either case, the dept_name variable is set to 'Emerging Technologies'.
    </para>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>XPath navigation</title>    
    <para> The associative array index can be an XPath-like expression. Valid
     expressions are defined by an augmented sub-set of XPath.
    </para>
    <para>
     Two forms of indexing into many-valued properties are supported.  
     The first is the standard XPath array syntax with the indexing
     starting at one, the second is an SDO extension to XPath with an index
     starting at zero.  The standard syntax is:
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.xpath1nav">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  $jane_doe = $company["departments[1]/employees[2]"];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>    
    <para>and the SDO XPath extension syntax is:</para> 
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.xpath0nav">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  $jane_doe = $company["departments.0/employees.1"];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para>
     Both these examples get the second employee from the first department.
    </para>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>XPath querying</title>
    <para>
     We can use XPath to query and identify parts of a data object based
     on instance data.  The following retrieves the manager from the
     'Advanced Technologies' department.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.xpathquery">
<![CDATA[
<?php
 $ad_tech_mgr = 
  $company["departments[name='Advanced Technologies']/employees[manager=true]"];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Creating child data objects</title>
    <para>
     A data object can be a factory for its child data objects.  
     A child data object is automatically part of the data graph.  
     The following add a new employee to the 'Advanced Technologies' 
     department.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.create">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  $ad_tech_dept = $company["departments[name='Advanced Technologies']"];
  $new_hire = $ad_tech_dept->createDataObject('employees');
  $new_hire->name = 'John Johnson';
  $new_hire->SN = 'E0005';
  $new_hire->manager = false;
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Unset a primitive property</title>
    <para>
     We can use the <function>isset</function> and
     <function>unset</function> functions to test and remove items
     from the data object.
    </para>
    <para>
     The following clears the name of the first department.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.unsetprim">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  unset($company->departments[0]->name);
?>
]]>
   </programlisting>
  </example>
  </para>
     
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Unset a data object</title>
    <para>
     unset can also be used to remove a data object from the tree.
     The following example shows John Jones leaving the company. 
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.unsetdo">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  unset($company->departments[0]->employees[0]);
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
  
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Unset a referenced data object</title>
    <para>
     The following removes the 'employeeOfTheMonth' from the company.
     If this were a containment relationship then the
     employee would be removed from the company 
     (probably not a good idea to sack your best employee each month!), 
     but since this is a non-containment reference, 
     the employee being referenced will remain in the 
     department in the company,
     but will no longer be accessible via the employeeOfTheMonth property.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.unsetrefdo">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  if (isset($company->employeeOfTheMonth)) {
    unset($company->employeeOfTheMonth);
  }
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
  
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Access via property index</title>
    <para> Data object properties can be accessed via their property index using array
     syntax. The property index is the position at which the property's definition
     appears in the model (in this case the xml schema). We can see from the schema listing
     above that the company name attribute is the second company property (the SDO
     interface makes no distinction between XML attributes and elements). The following
     sets the company name to 'Acme', with the same result as
     <link linkend="sdo.examples.propname">Access via property name</link>
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.propindex">
<![CDATA[
<?php
  $company[1] = 'Acme';
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    <para> Using the index directly in this way is likely to be fragile. Normally the
     property name syntax should be preferred, but the property index may be required
    in special cases.
    </para>
   </example>
  </para>

 </section>

 <section xml:id="sdo.sample.sequence">
  <title>Working with Sequenced Data Objects</title>
  <para>
   Sequenced data objects are SDOs which can track property
   ordering across the properties of a data object. They can also
   contain unstructured text elements (text element which do not
   belong to any of the SDO's properties).  Sequenced data objects are
   useful for working with XML documents which allow unstructured text (i.e.
   mixed=true) or if the elements can be interleaved (
   <![CDATA[<A/><B/><A/>]]>).  This can occur for example when
   the schema defines maxOccurs>1 on a
   element which is a complexType with a choice order indicator.
  </para>
  <para>
   The examples below assume an SDO created with the following schema
   and instance information, using the XML Data Access Service.
  </para>
  <para>
   The schema below describes the format of a letter.  The letter can
   optionally contain three properties; date, firstName, and lastName.
   The schema states <command>mixed="true"</command> which means that
   unstructured text can be interspersed between the three properties.
  </para>
  <para>
   <programlisting role="xml">
<![CDATA[
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:letter="http://letterSchema"
  targetNamespace="http://letterSchema">
  <xsd:element name="letters" type="letter:FormLetter"/>
  <xsd:complexType name="FormLetter" mixed="true">
    <xsd:sequence>
      <xsd:element name="date" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string"/>
      <xsd:element name="firstName" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string"/>
      <xsd:element name="lastName" minOccurs="0" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
  </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>
]]>
   </programlisting>
  </para>

  <para>
   The following is an instance letter document.  It contains the
   three letter properties; date, firstName and lastName, and has
   unstructured text elements for the address and letter body.
  </para>
  <para>
   <programlisting role="xml">
<![CDATA[
<letter:letters xmlns:letter="http://letterSchema">
  <date>March 1, 2005</date>
  Mutual of Omaha
  Wild Kingdom, USA
  Dear
  <firstName>Casy</firstName>
  <lastName>Crocodile</lastName>
  Please buy more shark repellent.
  Your premium is past due.
</letter:letters>
]]>
   </programlisting>
  </para>
  <para>
   When loaded, the letter data object will have the sequence and
   property indices shown in the table below:
   <informaltable>
    <tgroup cols="3">
     <thead>
      <row>
       <entry>Sequence Index</entry>
       <entry>Property Index:Name</entry>
       <entry>Value</entry>
      </row>
     </thead>
     <tbody>
      <row>
       <entry>0</entry>
       <entry>0:date</entry>
       <entry>March 1, 2005</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>1</entry>
       <entry>-</entry>
       <entry>Mutual of Omaha</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>2</entry>
       <entry>-</entry>
       <entry>Wild Kingdom, USA</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>3</entry>
       <entry>-</entry>
       <entry>Dear</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>4</entry>
       <entry>1:firstName</entry>
       <entry>Casy</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>5</entry>
       <entry>2:lastName</entry>
       <entry>Crocodile</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>6</entry>
       <entry>-</entry>
       <entry>Please buy more shark repellent.</entry>
      </row>
      <row>
       <entry>7</entry>
       <entry>-</entry>
       <entry>Your premium is past due.</entry>
      </row>
     </tbody>
    </tgroup>
   </informaltable>
  </para>

  <para>
   To ensure sequence indices are maintained, sequenced data objects
   should be manipulated through the SDO_Sequence interface.  
   This allows the data object's instance data to be manipulated 
   in terms of the sequence index as opposed to the property index 
   (shown in the table above).  
   The following examples assume the letter instance has been 
   loaded into a data object referenced by the variable
   <command>$letter</command>.
   <example>
    <title>Getting the SDO_Sequence interface</title>
    <para>
     We obtain a data object's sequence using the
     <function>getSequence</function>
     method. The follow gets the
     sequence for the letter data object.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.seqinterface">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  $letter_seq = $letter->getSequence();
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
  <para>
   All subsequent examples assume that the
   <command>$letter_seq</command>
   variable has been assigned the sequence for the letter data object.
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Get/set sequence values</title>
    <para>
     We can get and set individual values (including unstructured text)
     using the sequence index.  
     The following sets the firstName to 'Snappy' and gets the last 
     sequence values (the unstructured text, 'Your premium is past due.').
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.getsetseq">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  $letter_seq[4] = 'Snappy';
  $text = $letter_seq[count($letter_seq) - 1];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Sequence iteration</title>
    <para>
     We can iterate through the individual sequence values using &foreach;.
     The following runs through the individual values in sequence order.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.seqiter">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
foreach ($letter->getSequence() as $value) {
    // ...
}
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Sequence versus Data Object</title>
    <para>
     Setting values through the data object interface may result in the
     value not being part of the sequence.  A value set through the data
     object will only be accessible through the sequence if the property was
     already part of the sequence. The following example sets the
     lastName through the data object and gets it through the sequence.
     This is fine because lastName already exists in the sequence.  If
     it had not previously been set, then lastName would be set to
     'Smith', but would not be part of the sequence.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.seqvsdo">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  $letter[2] = 'Smith';
  $last_name = $letter_seq[5];
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Adding to a sequence</title>
    <para>
     We can add new values to a sequence using the
     <link linkend="sdo-sequence.insert"><function>SDO_Sequence::insert</function></link>
     method.  The following examples assume that the 'firstName' and 
     'lastName' properties are initially unset.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.seqadd">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  // Append a firstName value to the sequence
  // value: 'Smith'
  // sequence index: NULL (append)
  // propertyIdentifier: 1 (firtName property index)
  $letter_seq->insert('Smith', NULL, 1);

  // Append a lastName value to the sequence
  // value: 'Jones'
  // sequence index: NULL (append)
  // propertyIdentifier: 'lastName' (lastName property name)
  $letter_seq->insert('Jones', NULL, 'lastName');

  // Append unstructured text
  // value: 'Cancel Subscription.'
  // sequence index: absent (append)
  // propertyIdentifier: absent (unstructured text)
  $letter_seq->insert('Cancel Subscription.');

  // Insert new unstructured text.  Subsequent sequence values
  // are shifted up.                                       
  // value: 'Care of:'
  // sequence index: 1 (insert as second element)
  // propertyIdentifier: absent (unstructured text)
  $letter_seq->insert('Care of:', 1);
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Removing from a sequence</title>
    <para>
     We can use the <function>isset</function>  and
     <function>unset</function> functions to test and remove items
     from the sequence (Note: <function>unset</function> currently
     leaves the values in the data object, but this behaviour is
     likely to change to also remove the data from the data object).
     A sequence behaves like a contiguous list; therefore, removing
     items from the middle will shift entries at higher indices
     down. The following example tests to see if the first sequence
     element is set and unsets it if is.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.seqremove">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  if (isset($letter_seq[0])) {
    unset($letter_seq[0]);
  }
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>

 </section>


 <section xml:id="sdo.sample.reflection">
  <title>Reflecting on Service Data Objects</title>
  <para>
   SDOs have a knowledge of the structure they have been created to 
   represent (the model).  For example, a Company SDO created using 
   <link linkend="sdo.examples">the Company XML schema</link> above
   would only be permitted to contain DepartmentType data objects 
   which in turn could only contain EmployeeType data objects.
  </para>
  <para>
   Sometimes it is useful to be able to access this model information at 
   runtime.  For example, this could be used to automatically generate 
   a user interface for populating a data object.  The model information 
   is accessed using reflection.  
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Reflecting on a Data Object</title>
    <para>
     The following example shows how we can reflect on an empty Employee 
     data object.
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.reflection">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
  // Create the employee data object (e.g. from an XML Data Access Service)
  $employee = ...;
  $reflection = new SDO_Model_ReflectionDataObject($employee);
  print($reflection);
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    &example.outputs;

    <screen>
<![CDATA[
object(SDO_Model_ReflectionDataObject)#4 { - ROOT OBJECT - Type { 
companyNS:EmployeeType[3] { commonj.sdo:String $name; 
commonj.sdo:String $SN; commonj.sdo:Boolean $manager; } }
]]>
   </screen>
   <para>
     Using print on the SDO_Model_ReflectionDataObject writes out the data 
     object's model.  We can see from the output how the type 
     companyNS:EmployeeType has three properties and we can see the names 
     of the properties along with their types.  Note, the primitive types
     are listed as SDO types (e.g. commonj.sdo namespace, String type).  
     It is worth noting that this is the SDO model and when these are 
     surfaced to an application they can be treated as the PHP equivalent 
     types (e.g. string and boolean).
    </para>
   </example>
  </para>

  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Accessing the type information</title>
    <para>
     We can query the type information of a data object using reflection.  
     The following example checks the type corresponds to a data object
     rather than a primitive and then iterates through the properties of
     the type, writing out the name of each property ($type and $property 
     are SDO_Model_Type and SDO_Model_Property objects, respectively).
    </para>
    <programlisting role="php" xml:id="sdo.examples.reflection.type">
<![CDATA[ 
<?php
    // Create the employee data object (e.g. from an XML Data Access Service)
    $employee = ...;
    $reflection = new SDO_Model_ReflectionDataObject($employee);
    $type = $reflection->getType();
    if (! $type->isDataType()) {
        foreach ($type->getProperties() as $property) {
            print $property->getName() . "\n";
        }
    }
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    &example.outputs;
    <screen>
<![CDATA[
name
SN
manager
]]>
    </screen>
   </example>
  </para>

 </section>
</chapter>

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