public void setLogType()

in contribs/ThomasFenner/JDBCLogger.java [213:296]
60 lines of code
19 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

	public void setLogType(String _name, int _logtype, Object _value) throws Exception
	{
		if(!isconfigured) throw new Exception("JDBCLogger::setLogType(), Not configured !");

		//setLogType() makes only sense for further configuration of configureTable()
      if(sql != null) return;

      _name = _name.toUpperCase();

		if(_name == null || !(_name.trim().length() > 0)) throw new Exception("JDBCLogger::setLogType(), Missing argument name !");
		if(!LogType.isLogType(_logtype)) throw new Exception("JDBCLogger::setLogType(), Invalid logtype '" + _logtype + "' !");
		if((_logtype != LogType.MSG && _logtype != LogType.EMPTY) && _value == null) throw new Exception("JDBCLogger::setLogType(), Missing argument value !");

  		LogColumn logcol;

		for(int i=0; i<num; i++)
		{
        	logcol = (LogColumn)logcols.get(i);

			if(logcol.name.equals(_name))
			{
         	if(!logcol.isWritable) throw new Exception("JDBCLogger::setLogType(), Column " + _name + " is not writeable !");

				//Column gets the message
				if(_logtype == LogType.MSG)
            {
            	logcol.logtype = _logtype;
               return;
				}
				//Column will be provided by JDBCIDHandler::getID()
				else if(_logtype == LogType.ID)
				{
					logcol.logtype = _logtype;

               try
               {
               	//Try to cast directly Object to JDBCIDHandler
						logcol.idhandler = (JDBCIDHandler)_value;
               }
               catch(Exception e)
               {
               	try
                  {
                  	//Assuming _value is of class string which contains the classname of a JDBCIDHandler
							logcol.idhandler = (JDBCIDHandler)(Class.forName((String)_value).newInstance());
                  }
                  catch(Exception e2)
                  {
							throw new Exception("JDBCLogger::setLogType(), Cannot cast value of class " + _value.getClass() + " to class JDBCIDHandler !");
                  }
               }

               return;
				}

				//Column will be statically defined with Object _value
				else if(_logtype == LogType.STATIC)
				{
					logcol.logtype = _logtype;
					logcol.value = _value;
               return;
				}

				//Column will be provided with a actually timestamp
				else if(_logtype == LogType.TIMESTAMP)
				{
					logcol.logtype = _logtype;
               return;
				}

            //Column will be fully ignored during process.
            //If this column is not nullable, the column has to be filled by a database trigger,
            //else a database error occurs !
            //Columns which are not nullable, but should be not filled, must be explicit assigned with LogType.EMPTY,
            //else a value is required !
				else if(_logtype == LogType.EMPTY)
				{
					logcol.logtype = _logtype;
					logcol.ignore = true;
               return;
				}
			}
		}
	}