be.saltwater.jaqel.maze.loaders
Class XMLMazeLoader

java.lang.Object
  be.saltwater.jaqel.maze.loaders.XMLMazeLoader

All Implemented Interfaces:

MazeLoader

public class XMLMazeLoader

extends java.lang.Object

implements MazeLoader

Provides support for loading a maze from an xml file. The DOM (org.w3c.dom) is used for parsing the XML file. XMLTileSetLoader is used for loading the tileset. The XML file must have the following format:

<maze name="shortname" description="longer description" tileset="relative/path/to/tileset/xml/file.xml">
        <row>
                <tile type="tiletypename"/>
        </row>
</maze>

The type attribute of the tile element must match the name attribute in the corresponding XML tileset file.

Author:

Bruno Windels

See Also:

MazeLoader, TileSetLoader, XMLTileSetLoader

Constructor Summary

XMLMazeLoader()

Method Summary

Maze	load(java.lang.String filename) Implementation of MazeLoader.load for this format (XML)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XMLMazeLoader

public XMLMazeLoader()
              throws javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException

Method Detail

load

public Maze load(java.lang.String filename)
          throws TileSetLoadException,
                 java.io.IOException,
                 java.text.ParseException

Implementation of MazeLoader.load for this format (XML)

Specified by:

load in interface MazeLoader

Parameters:

filename - The filename of the file that is to be loaded.

Throws:

java.text.ParseException - When the file has the wrong format.

TileSetLoadException - When the used TileSetLoader couldn't load the tileset completly or another problem arose when trying to load the tileset.

java.io.IOException - When some file could not be read.

See Also:

MazeLoader.load(String)