protected XmlSchemaElement getElementByName()

in src/main/java/org/apache/ws/commons/schema/XmlSchema.java [668:701]

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

    protected XmlSchemaElement getElementByName(QName name, boolean deep, Stack<XmlSchema> schemaStack) {
        if (schemaStack != null && schemaStack.contains(this)) {
            // recursive schema - just return null
            return null;
        }

        XmlSchemaElement element = elements.get(name);
        if (deep) {
            if (element == 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);
                        element = schema.getElementByName(name, deep, schemaStack);
                        if (element != null) {
                            return element;
                        }
                    }
                }
            } else {
                return element;
            }
        }
        return element;
    }