Re: Get "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError" when Parsing an XML useing DOM

From:
"NeoGeoSNK" <ny1022@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
25 Mar 2007 19:17:25 -0700
Message-ID:
<1174875445.739518.26870@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 24, 11:31 pm, Lew <l...@nospam.lewscanon.com> wrote:

"NeoGeoSNK" <ny1...@gmail.com> wrote:

I just uesed the SAX to rewrite the code, and the performance
increased a lot,To my surprise, the DOM parsing the XML will consume
more than 6 hours, but the SAX take 6 seconds only:),

Andrew Thompson wrote:

Hmm... That is quite an impressive difference,
isn't it? Lew's estimate was not far off (I did
not comment at the time - but I really thought
his statement of '2 hour -> 1 to 2 seconds' was
unrealistic!).


Oh, ye of little faith! :-)

It would've been fine with me if I were wrong - I have been proven wrong in
this forum several times before. I just know how fast a good SAX
implementation can be, went out on a limb and was right this time.

I wonder if there weren't a particular problem with the DOM implementation,
though. Others in this thread have had better success with a DOM approach than
the OP did.

-- Lew


Thanks Lew
I pasted my source code below,maybe you can point out some problems of
my DOM implementation when you free:)
//The Set parsing(String filename) is implemented by DOM
//The Set parsing(String filename, boolean sax) is implemented by SAX

import java.io.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.xml.xpath.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.*;

/**
 * parsing a XML format log file and retrieval all subscribers info.
 * @author yning
 *
 */

class SAXhandler extends DefaultHandler{
    public SAXhandler(Set subscribers){
        this.subscribers = subscribers;
    }

    int ing;
    int ed;
    boolean inasub = false;
    boolean callingflag = false;
    boolean calledflag = false;
    boolean lrnflag = false;
    boolean dirflag = false;
    Set subscribers;
    SubInfo subscriber;
    public void startElement(String namespaceURL, String lname, String
qname, Attributes attr){

        if(qname.equals("string")){
            //System.out.println("Sax parser = " + qname);
            //System.out.println("attr = " + attr.getValue(0));
            String value = attr.getValue(0);
            if(value.equals("Sub_OAM_DirNumber")){
                    subscriber = new SubInfo();
                    dirflag = true;
            }else{
                if(value.equals("create")){
                     subscriber.setModifier("create");
                }else{
                    if(value.equals("modify")){
                        subscriber.setModifier("modify");
                    }else{
                        if(value.equals("delete")){
                            subscriber.setModifier("delete");
                        }else{
                              if(value.trim().matches("dirNumberId.*")){
                                  //System.out.println("dirNumberId = " +
value);
                                    String dirnumber =
value.substring(value.indexOf("dirNumberId=") + 12,
value.indexOf(",sHLRSubsOrganizationId"));
                                    String ndc =
value.substring(value.indexOf("nDCId=") + 6,
value.indexOf(",managedElementId=SHLR"));
                                 // System.out.println("dirnumber=" +
dirnumber + ndc);
                                    subscriber.setNDCId(ndc);
                                    subscriber.setdirNumberId(dirnumber);
                              }else{
                             if(value.equals("callingList")){
                             callingflag = true;
                             }else{
                             if(callingflag == true){
                             if(value.equals("NULL"))
                             subscriber.removeCallingList();
                             else
                             subscriber.addCallingList(value);
                             // System.out.println("callingService = " +
value.trim());
                             //System.out.println("ing = " + ing++);
                             callingflag = false;
                             }else{
                             if(value.equals("calledList")){
                                     calledflag = true;
                             }else{
                             if(calledflag == true){
                                     if(value.equals("NULL"))
                                     subscriber.removeCalledList();
                                     else
                                     subscriber.addCalledList(value);
                                 // System.out.println("calledService = " +
value.trim());
                                 // System.out.println("ed = " + ed++);
                                 calledflag = false;
                             }else{
                             if(value.equals("lRNumberId")){
                             lrnflag = true;
                             }else{
                             if(lrnflag == true){
                             // System.out.println("lrnnumber = " + value);
                             subscriber.setlrnNumberId(value);
                             lrnflag = false;
                             }
                             }
                             }
                             }
                             }
                             }
                              }

                    }
                }
            }
        }

     }
  }

    public void endElement(String uri, String lname, String qname){
        if(qname.equals("record") && dirflag == true){
            subscribers.add(subscriber);
            dirflag = false;
        }
    }

}

public class ParsingLog {

public Set parsing(String filename, boolean sax)throws Exception{
    Set subset = new LinkedHashSet();
    File f = new File(filename);
    SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
    SAXParser paser = factory.newSAXParser();
    SAXhandler handler = new SAXhandler(subset);
    paser.parse(f, handler);
    return handler.subscribers;
}

public Set parsing(String filename) throws Exception{
    Set subset = new LinkedHashSet();
    File f = new File(filename);
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    Document doc = builder.parse(f);
    Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
    XPathFactory xpfactory = XPathFactory.newInstance();
    XPath path = xpfactory.newXPath();
    NodeList recoredlist = (NodeList)path.evaluate("/journal/record",
doc, XPathConstants.NODESET);
   // System.out.println("frameIdlist.getLength()= " +
recoredlist.getLength());
    //enumerate all record in a log
    for(int i = 0; i < recoredlist.getLength(); i ++){
    // System.out.println("recoredlist = " + recoredlist.item(i));
        Node record = recoredlist.item(i);
        Element recordelement = (Element)record;
        //System.out.println(recordelement.getTagName());
        //get operat type
        String BEtype = (String)path.evaluate("header/header_generic/domain/
@value", recordelement);
    // System.out.println("operation type = " + BEtype);
        if(!BEtype.equals("SHLR::Subscription"))
            continue;
        SubInfo subscriber = new SubInfo();
        NodeList framelist = (NodeList)path.evaluate("body/frame",
recordelement, XPathConstants.NODESET);
      // System.out.println("framelist = " + framelist.getLength());
        //enumerate frame list in a record
        for(int j = 0; j < framelist.getLength(); j++){
       // System.out.println("frame = " + framelist.item(j));
        NodeList attriblist = (NodeList)path.evaluate("attribute/
attribute_value/string/@value", framelist.item(j),
XPathConstants.NODESET);
            for(int k = 0; k < attriblist.getLength(); k++){
             //System.out.println(attriblist.item(k));
                //System.out.println(attriblist.item(k).getClass());
             Node attribute = attriblist.item(k);
                String value = attribute.getNodeValue();
                //String value = att.getAttribute("Value");
              // System.out.println("Value = " + value);
                if(value.equals("create")){
                   subscriber.setModifier("create");
                }else{
                  if(value.equals("modify")){
                 subscriber.setModifier("modify");
                  }else{
                    if(value.equals("delete")){
                           subscriber.setModifier("delete");
                    }else{
                      if(value.trim().matches("dirNumberId.*")){
                              //System.out.println("dirNumberId = " +
value);
                                String dirnumber =
value.substring(value.indexOf("dirNumberId=") + 12,
value.indexOf(",sHLRSubsOrganizationId"));
                                String ndc =
value.substring(value.indexOf("nDCId=") + 6,
value.indexOf(",managedElementId=SHLR"));
                             // System.out.println("dirnumber=" +
dirnumber + ndc);
                                subscriber.setNDCId(ndc);

subscriber.setdirNumberId(dirnumber);
                      }else{
                     if(value.equals("calledList")){
             Node calledattr = attriblist.item(k + 1);
                            String calledvalue =
calledattr.getNodeValue();
                          // System.out.println("calledList = " +
calledvalue);
                            if(calledvalue.equals("NULL"))
                              subscriber.removeCalledList();
                            else
                              subscriber.addCalledList(calledvalue);
                     }else{
                     if(value.equals("callingList")){
                 Node callingattr = attriblist.item(k + 1);
                                String callingvalue =
callingattr.getNodeValue();
                             // System.out.println("callingList = " +
callingvalue);
                                if(callingvalue.equals("NULL"))
                                  subscriber.removeCallingList();
                                else
                                  subscriber.addCallingList(callingvalue);
                     }else{
                     if(value.equals("lRNumberId")){
                     Node lrnattr = attriblist.item(k + 1);
                     String lrnvalue = lrnattr.getNodeValue();
                     subscriber.setlrnNumberId(lrnvalue);

                     }
                     }
                     }

                      }
                    }
                 }
                }
            }
        }
        if(subscriber != null)
            subset.add(subscriber);
    }

    return subset;
}

public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception{
    System.out.println("start job:" + new Date());

    ParsingLog a = new ParsingLog();
    Set set = a.parsing("log_R2.2.xml");
    System.out.println("\n\n\ntotal subscribers = " + set.size());
    Iterator iterator = set.iterator();
    SubInfo sub;
    while(iterator.hasNext()){
        System.out.println("subscriber to write");
        sub = (SubInfo)iterator.next();
        System.out.println("dirnumber:" + sub.getdirNumberId());
        System.out.println("Modifier:" + sub.getModifier());
        System.out.println("ndc:" + sub.getNDCId());
        System.out.println("called list:" + sub.getCalledList());
        System.out.println("calling list:" + sub.getCallingList());
        System.out.println("lrn:" + sub.getlrnNumberId());
    }
    System.out.println("job finished:" + new Date());

    /*
    Set saxset;
    SubInfo sub;
    ParsingLog b = new ParsingLog();
    saxset = b.parsing("log_R2.2.xml", true);
    System.out.println("set size = " + saxset.size());
    Iterator iterator = saxset.iterator();
    while(iterator.hasNext()){
        System.out.println("subscriber to write");
        sub = (SubInfo)iterator.next();
        System.out.println("dirnumber:" + sub.getdirNumberId());
        System.out.println("Modifier:" + sub.getModifier());
        System.out.println("ndc:" + sub.getNDCId());
        System.out.println("called list:" + sub.getCalledList());
        System.out.println("calling list:" + sub.getCallingList());
        System.out.println("lrn:" + sub.getlrnNumberId());
    }
    */
    System.out.println("job finished:" + new Date());
    //saxset = b.parsing("log_R2.2.xml",true);
    //System.out.println("set size = " + saxset.size());
}
}

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