Package net.sf.saxon.lib

Class ExtensionFunctionCall

java.lang.Object
net.sf.saxon.lib.ExtensionFunctionCall
All Implemented Interfaces:
Callable
public abstract class ExtensionFunctionCall extends Object implements Callable
This abstract class is provided to allow user-written extension functions to be implemented with the full capabilities of functions that are an intrinsic part of the Saxon product. In particular, the class has the opportunity to save data from the static context and to optimize itself at compile time.

Instances of this class are created by calling the method makeCallExpression() on the ExtensionFunctionDefinition object that represents the definition of the function.

The compiler will create one instance of this class for each function call appearing in the expression being compiled. The class must therefore have a public zero-argument constructor.

The compiler will ensure that the supplied arguments in the extension function call are converted if necessary to the declared argument types, by applying the standard conversion rules. The result returned by the function is checked against the declared return type, but no conversion takes place: the returned value must strictly conform to the declared type.

Note that an ExtensionFunctionCall is trusted; calls are allowed even if the configuration option FeatureKeys.ALLOW_EXTERNAL_FUNCTIONS is false. In cases where an ExtensionFunctionCall is used to load and execute untrusted code, it should check this configuration option before doing so.

Since:
9.2; modified in 9.5 to use Sequence rather than SequenceIterator for the arguments and result

  • Constructor Details

    • ExtensionFunctionCall

      public ExtensionFunctionCall()

  • Method Details

    • setDefinition

      public final void setDefinition(ExtensionFunctionDefinition definition)
      This method is called by the system to provide information about the extension function call. It should not be called by the implementor of the extension function.
      Parameters:
      definition - the extension function definition

    • getDefinition

      public final ExtensionFunctionDefinition getDefinition()
      Get the definition of this extension function
      Returns:
      the function definition from which this ExtensionFunctionCall was created

    • supplyStaticContext

      public void supplyStaticContext(StaticContext context, int locationId, Expression[] arguments) throws XPathException
      Supply static context information.

      This method is called during compilation to provide information about the static context in which the function call appears. If the implementation of the function needs information from the static context, then it should save it now, as it will not be available later at run-time.

      The implementation also has the opportunity to examine the expressions that appear in the arguments to the function call at this stage. These might already have been modified from the original expressions as written by the user. The implementation must not modify any of these expressions.

      The default implementation of this method does nothing.

      Parameters:
      context - The static context in which the function call appears. The method must not modify the static context.
      locationId - An integer code representing the location of the call to the extension function in the stylesheet; can be used in conjunction with the locationMap held in the static context for diagnostics
      arguments - The XPath expressions supplied in the call to this function. The method must not modify this array, or any of the expressions contained in the array. This parameter will be null in the case where the supplied arguments are null, that is when binding a higher-order function reference or a call on fn:function-lookup().
      Throws:
      XPathException - if the implementation is able to detect a static error in the way the function is being called (for example it might require that the types of the arguments are consistent with each other).

    • rewrite

      public Expression rewrite(StaticContext context, Expression[] arguments) throws XPathException
      Rewrite the function call. This method is called at compile time. It gives the implementation an opportunity to replace itself with an optimized implementation that returns the same result. This includes the ability to pre-evaluate the function and return its result as a literal value.

      There is also a further opportunity to perform static checking at this stage and to throw an error if the arguments are invalid.

      Parameters:
      context - The static context in which the function call appears. The method must not modify the static context.
      arguments - The XPath expressions supplied in the call to this function. This method is called after type-checking, so these expressions may have been modified by adding atomization operators or type-checking operations, for example.
      Returns:
      an expression to be evaluated at run-time in place of this function call. Return null if no rewriting is required and the function call should be used unchanged. Return a Literal representing the result of the function call if the function call can be precomputed at compile time
      Throws:
      XPathException - if the implementation is able to detect a static error in the way the function is being called (for example it might require that the types of the arguments are consistent with each other).

    • copyLocalData

      @Deprecated public void copyLocalData(ExtensionFunctionCall destination)
      Deprecated.
      since 12.0
      Copy local data from one copy of the function to another.

      This method is no longer used: functions do not need to provide an implementation, and if they do so, the implementation will never be called. It is retained for the time being for backwards compatibility

      Parameters:
      destination - the function to which the local data must be copied.

    • call

      public abstract Sequence call(XPathContext context, Sequence[] arguments) throws XPathException
      Evaluate this function call at run-time
      Specified by:
      call in interface Callable
      Parameters:
      context - The XPath dynamic evaluation context
      arguments - The values of the arguments to the function call. Each argument value (which is in general a sequence) is supplied in the form of Sequence. Any required conversions to the declared types of the arguments will already have been performed.

      If the argument is always a singleton, then the single item may be obtained by calling arguments[i].head().

      The implementation is not obliged to read all the items in each SequenceIterator if they are not required to compute the result; but if any SequenceIterator is not read to completion, it is good practice to call its close() method.

      Returns:
      the results of the function as a Sequence.

      The implementation is responsible for ensuring that the result is a valid instance of the declared result type. Saxon will check that this is the case if the ExtensionFunctionDefinition.trustResultType() method returns false, but it will never convert the supplied result value to the declared result type.

      The Sequence objects used for the arguments will often be instances of LazySequence, which means that the items in the sequence are computed lazily on demand. This means that any errors that occur while computing the sequence might not be thrown until the relevant item is actually read from the sequence.

      If the result is a single item, it can be returned directly, since single items all implement Sequence. For example a string can be returned as an instance of StringValue, and a boolean as an instance of BooleanValue. If the result is an empty sequence, the method should return EmptySequence.getInstance()

      Throws:
      XPathException - if a dynamic error occurs during evaluation of the function. The Saxon run-time code will add information about the error location.

    • effectiveBooleanValue

      public boolean effectiveBooleanValue(XPathContext context, Sequence[] arguments) throws XPathException
      Compute the effective boolean value of the result.

      Implementations can override this method but are not required to do so. If it is overridden, the result must be consistent with the rules for calculating effective boolean value. The method should be implemented in cases where computing the effective boolean value is significantly cheaper than computing the full result.

      Parameters:
      context - The XPath dynamic evaluation context
      arguments - The values of the arguments to the function call. Each argument value (which is in general a sequence) is supplied in the form of Sequence. Any required conversions to the declared types of the arguments will already have been performed.

      If the argument is always a singleton, then the single item may be obtained by calling arguments[i].head().

      The implementation is not obliged to read all the items in each Sequence if they are not required to compute the result; but if any Sequence is not read to completion, it is good practice to call close() on the iterator.

      Returns:
      the effective boolean value of the result
      Throws:
      XPathException - if a dynamic error occurs during evaluation of the function. The Saxon run-time code will add information about the error location.

    • getStreamingImplementation

      public Object getStreamingImplementation()
      Get a streamable implementation of this extension function. This interface is provisional and currently only really intended for internal use; it is subject to change. If the value returned is non-null, then it must be an instance of com.saxonica.ee.stream.adjunct
      Returns:
      the streaming implementation of the extension function