protected XmlSchemaAttribute getAttributeByName()

in src/main/java/org/apache/ws/commons/schema/XmlSchema.java [596:630]

• 26 lines of code
• 9 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    protected XmlSchemaAttribute getAttributeByName(QName name, boolean deep, Stack<XmlSchema> schemaStack) {
        if (schemaStack != null && schemaStack.contains(this)) {
            // recursive schema - just return null
            return null;
        }
        XmlSchemaAttribute attribute = (XmlSchemaAttribute)attributes.get(name);
        if (deep) {
            if (attribute == null) {
                // search the imports
                for (XmlSchemaExternal item : externals) {

                    XmlSchema schema = getSchema(item);

                    if (schema != null) {
                        // create an empty stack - push the current parent in
                        // and
                        // use the protected method to process the schema
                        if (schemaStack == null) {
                            schemaStack = new Stack<XmlSchema>();
                        }
                        schemaStack.push(this);
                        attribute = schema.getAttributeByName(name, deep, schemaStack);
                        if (attribute != null) {
                            return attribute;
                        }
                    }
                }
            } else {
                return attribute;
            }
        }

        return attribute;

    }