com.blackledge.david.tivo.gadgets
Class RSSItem

java.lang.Object
  com.blackledge.david.tivo.gadgets.RSSItem

public class RSSItem
extends Object

Simple bean to hold the elements of a RSS XML item, designed fr use with RSSListScreen

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Constructor Summary

RSSItem(Element element)

Method Summary

protected List	getChildElementsByTagName(Element parentElement, String name) Often we want to work with all the subtags of a given name (or just all subtags) - this gets them for us.
String	getDescription()
int	getEnclosureLength()
String	getEnclosureType()
String	getEnclosureUrl()
protected String	getNodeValue(Node element) Typically we want the text value contained within a tag...
Date	getPubDate()
protected Element	getSingleChildElementByTagName(Element parentElement, String name) Often we know we want one subtag and it won't appear more than once, this gets it for us.
String	getTitle()
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RSSItem

public RSSItem(Element element)

Parameters:

element - the XML "item" element in the rss feed.

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

getTitle

public String getTitle()

getDescription

public String getDescription()

getPubDate

public Date getPubDate()

getEnclosureUrl

public String getEnclosureUrl()

getEnclosureLength

public int getEnclosureLength()

getEnclosureType

public String getEnclosureType()

getSingleChildElementByTagName

protected Element getSingleChildElementByTagName(Element parentElement,
                                                 String name)

Often we know we want one subtag and it won't appear more than once, this gets it for us.

Parameters:

parentElement -

name - may not be null.

Returns:

the named Tag, or null if that named tag isn't a child of this parentElement.

getChildElementsByTagName

protected List getChildElementsByTagName(Element parentElement,
                                         String name)

Often we want to work with all the subtags of a given name (or just all subtags) - this gets them for us.

Parameters:

parentElement -

name - - null means accept all tag names into the list.

Returns:

List containing only Element instances. never null

getNodeValue

protected String getNodeValue(Node element)

Typically we want the text value contained within a tag... this gets it, or null if anything along the path to getting it is null.

Parameters:

element -

Returns:

a String value (trimmed) or null