/// <summary>
/// Create an aggregate from the list of properties in aggrSpec and fill
/// with values from values array. This is not publically visible because
/// it conflicts semantically with setAttribute("foo",new Object[] {...});
/// </summary>
public virtual void setAttribute(String aggrSpec, params Object[] values)
{
IList properties = new ArrayList();
String aggrName = null;
try {
aggrName = parseAggregateAttributeSpec(aggrSpec, properties);
}
catch (ArgumentException) {
//hmm, maybe they just want to set an attribute to an array value?
setAttribute(aggrSpec, (Object) values);
return;
}
if (values == null || properties.Count == 0) {
throw new ArgumentException("missing properties or values for '" + aggrSpec + "'");
}
if (values.Length != properties.Count) {
throw new ArgumentException("number of properties in '" + aggrSpec + "' != number of values");
}
Aggregate aggr = new Aggregate();
for (int i = 0; i < values.Length; i++) {
Object value = values[i];
aggr.put((String) properties[i], value);
}
setAttribute(aggrName, aggr);
}