Backend-libXML/Parser.py

@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ def xpath(source: str, xpath: str) -> str:
     # root.xpath can return 4 types: float, string, bool and list.
     # List is the only one that can't be simply converted to str
     if type(result) is not list:
-        return str(result)
+        return str(result), type(result).__name__
     else:
         result_string = ""
         for e in result:
             result_string += etree.tostring(e, pretty_print=True).decode() + "\n"
-        return result_string
+        return result_string, "node"
 
 
 

Backend-libXML/main.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def process_xml(request: request, type: str) -> str:
         elif (type == "xslt"):
             response_json['result'] = Parser.xslt(data, process)
         elif (type == "xpath"):
-            response_json['result'] = Parser.xpath(data, process)
+            response_json['result'], response_json['type'] = Parser.xpath(data, process)
         elif (type == "prettify"):
             response_json['result'] = Parser.formatXML(data, True)
         elif (type == "minimize"):

Backend/tools-services/src/main/java/com/r11/tools/controller/XPathController.java

@@ -2,10 +2,7 @@ package com.r11.tools.controller;
 
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
-import com.r11.tools.controller.internal.GlobalControllerManifest;
+import com.r11.tools.controller.internal.*;
-import com.r11.tools.controller.internal.HandlerType;
-import com.r11.tools.controller.internal.RestController;
-import com.r11.tools.controller.internal.ScopedControllerManifest;
 import com.r11.tools.xml.Saxon;
 import com.r11.tools.xml.Xalan;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
@@ -63,7 +60,7 @@ public class XPathController implements RestController {
                 timeStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
 
                 try {
-                    tmp = Saxon.processXPath(data, query, version).trim();
+                    tmp = Saxon.processXPath(data, query, version).getData().trim();
 
                     response.status(200);
 
@@ -92,12 +89,13 @@ public class XPathController implements RestController {
                 timeStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
 
                 try {
-                    tmp = Xalan.processXPath(data, query).trim();
+                    XPathQueryResult xPathQueryResult = Xalan.processXPath(data, query);
 
                     response.status(200);
 
-                    responseJson.addProperty("result", tmp);
+                    responseJson.addProperty("result", xPathQueryResult.getData().trim());
                     responseJson.addProperty("status", "OK");
+                    responseJson.addProperty("type", xPathQueryResult.getType());
                 } catch (Exception ex) {
                     this.logger.error("Error on processing XPath using Xalan. " + ex);
 

Backend/tools-services/src/main/java/com/r11/tools/controller/internal/XPathQueryResult.java

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package com.r11.tools.controller.internal;
+
+/**
+ * Class used to store data received from parser and type of that data (node, string, etc.)
+ */
+public class XPathQueryResult {
+    private String data;
+    private String type;
+
+    public XPathQueryResult(String data, String type) {
+        this.data = data;
+        this.type = type;
+    }
+
+    public String getData() {
+        return data;
+    }
+
+    public String getType() {
+        return type;
+    }
+}

Backend/tools-services/src/main/java/com/r11/tools/xml/Saxon.java

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.r11.tools.xml;
 
+import com.r11.tools.controller.internal.XPathQueryResult;
 import net.sf.saxon.s9api.*;
 
 import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
@@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ public class Saxon {
      * @return string xml representation of the node
      * @throws Exception thrown on node building errors or invalid xpath
      */
-    public static String processXPath(String data, String query, String version) throws Exception {
+    public static XPathQueryResult processXPath(String data, String query, String version) throws Exception {
         Processor p = new Processor(false);
         XPathCompiler compiler = p.newXPathCompiler();
         DocumentBuilder builder = p.newDocumentBuilder();
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ public class Saxon {
             sb.append(xdmItem);
             sb.append('\n');
         }
-        return sb.toString();
+        return new XPathQueryResult(sb.toString(), "N/A");
 
     }
 

Backend/tools-services/src/main/java/com/r11/tools/xml/Xalan.java

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.r11.tools.xml;
 
+import com.r11.tools.controller.internal.XPathQueryResult;
 import org.apache.xpath.XPathAPI;
 import org.apache.xpath.objects.XObject;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ public class Xalan {
      * @return xml processed using given xpath
      * @throws Exception thrown on node building errors or invalid xpath
      */
-    public static String processXPath(String data, String transform) throws Exception {
+    public static XPathQueryResult processXPath(String data, String transform) throws Exception {
 
         // Set up a DOM tree to query.
         InputSource in = new InputSource(new StringReader(data));
@@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ public class Xalan {
             NodeIterator nl = XPathAPI.selectNodeIterator(doc, transform);
 
             // Serialize the found nodes to result object.
-            StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
+            StringBuilder resultString = new StringBuilder();
             Node n;
             while ((n = nl.nextNode())!= null) {
                 StringBuilder sb;
@@ -90,18 +91,19 @@ public class Xalan {
                     // single XPath text node.  Coalesce all contiguous text nodes
                     // at this level
                     for (Node nn = n.getNextSibling(); isTextNode(nn); nn = nn.getNextSibling()) {
-                        result.append(nn.getNodeValue());
+                        resultString.append(nn.getNodeValue());
                     }
                 } else {
                     ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
                     serializer.transform(new DOMSource(n), new StreamResult(new OutputStreamWriter(outputStream)));
-                    result.append(outputStream);
+                    resultString.append(outputStream);
                 }
-                result.append("\n");
+                resultString.append("\n");
             }
-            return result.toString();
+            return new XPathQueryResult(resultString.toString(), "node");
         } catch (TransformerException e) {
-            return XPathAPI.eval(doc, transform).toString();
+            String returnData = XPathAPI.eval(doc, transform).toString();
+            return new XPathQueryResult(data, "string");
         }
 
     }

Frontend/assets/scripts/tools/scripts.js

@@ -244,9 +244,12 @@ function performRequest(endpoint, checkXML, checkTransform) {
     if (!empty) {
         restRequest(port, endpoint, xmlData, transformData).then(function (result) {
             document.getElementById("resultArea").value = result.result;
-            document.getElementById("procinfo").innerText = ' Computed using '.concat(" ", result.processor);
+            document.getElementById("procinfo").innerText = ' Computed using ' + result.processor
+            if (result.type)
+                document.getElementById("procinfo").innerText += ". Returned: " + result.type;
+                
             if (result.status = "OK") {
-                document.getElementById("procinfo").innerText = document.getElementById("procinfo").innerText.concat(" in ", result.time, "ms");
+                document.getElementById("procinfo").innerText += " in " + result.time + "ms";
                 procinfo.style.color = "#30aa58";
             } else {
                 procinfo.style.color = "#aa3030";