initial checkin of merge method

[sfa.git] / sfa / util / rspec.py

diff --git a/sfa/util/rspec.py b/sfa/util/rspec.py
index 1b05803..515dd86 100644 (file)
--- a/sfa/util/rspec.py
+++ b/sfa/util/rspec.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import httplib
 from xml.dom import minidom
 from types import StringTypes, ListType
 
-class Rspec:
+class RSpec:
 
     def __init__(self, xml = None, xsd = None, NSURL = None):
         '''
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ class Rspec:
         """
         Convert a dictionary into a dom object and store it.
         """
-        self.rootNode = self.dict2dom(rdict, include_doc)
+        self.rootNode = self.dict2dom(rdict, include_doc).childNodes[0]
  
  
     def getDictsByTagName(self, tagname, dom = None):
@@ -332,6 +332,28 @@ class Rspec:
                 self.filter(tagname, attribute, blacklist, whitelist, child) 
 
 
+    def merge(self, rspecs, tagname, dom=None):
+        """
+        Merge this rspec with the requested rspec based on the specified 
+        starting tag name. The start tag (and all of its children) will be merged  
+        """
+        tempdict = {}
+        if not dom:
+            dom = self.rootNode
+
+        whitelist = []
+        blacklist = []
+            
+        if dom.localName in [tagname] and dom.attributes.has_key(attribute):
+            if whitelist and dom.attributes.get(attribute).value not in whitelist:
+                dom.parentNode.removeChild(dom)
+            if blacklist and dom.attributes.get(attribute).value in blacklist:
+                dom.parentNode.removeChild(dom)
+
+        if dom.hasChildNodes():
+            for child in dom.childNodes:
+                self.filter(tagname, attribute, blacklist, whitelist, child) 
+
     def validateDicts(self):
         types = {
             'EInt' : int,
@@ -363,7 +385,7 @@ class Rspec:
     
 
 
-class RecordSpec(Rspec):
+class RecordSpec(RSpec):
 
     root_tag = 'record'
     def parseDict(self, rdict, include_doc = False):
@@ -376,7 +398,7 @@ class RecordSpec(Rspec):
         record_dict = rdict
         if not len(rdict.keys()) == 1:
             record_dict = {self.root_tag : rdict}
-        return Rspec.dict2dom(self, record_dict, include_doc)
+        return RSpec.dict2dom(self, record_dict, include_doc)
 
         
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