/**
* return the child ObjectDefinition, if the child with a given name exist, return null otherwise.
* Note this access is much slower that the indexed approach, the performance can degrade if the
* number of children is high
*
* @param childName
* @return
*/
public ObjectDefinition getchild(String childName) {
for (ObjectDefinition child : children) {
if (child.getName().equals(childName)) {
return child;
}
}
return null;
}
/*
* (non-Javadoc)
*
* @see java.lang.Object#toString()
*/
@Override
public String toString() {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("name: " + name + "\n");
sb.append(" Fields: \n");
sb.append(fields.toString());
if (!children.isEmpty()) sb.append("\nChildren: ");
for (ObjectDefinition c : children) {
sb.append("\n child ");
if (c != null) sb.append(c.toString());
}
return sb.toString();
}