channel properties in <channel> tag in request xml

src/main/java/altk/comm/engine/Broadcast.java

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ public abstract class Broadcast
     private static final long SLEEP_BETWEEN_JOBS_DEFAULT = 0;
 	static final String DAILY_STOP_KEY = "daily_stop";
 	static final String DAILY_START_KEY = "daily_start";
+	static final String CHANNEL_KEY = "channel";
 
 	static final String CSV_LOGGER = "csv";
 	
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ public abstract class Broadcast
 	private Postback postback;
 	protected String daily_start = ""; 
 	protected String daily_stop = "";
+	protected JSONObject channel_json;
 	
 	/**
 	 * Sleep time in milliseconds between consecutive job processing (actualliy batch)

src/main/java/altk/comm/engine/XMLSAXBroadcast.java

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package altk.comm.engine;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.text.ParseException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
@@ -11,6 +12,9 @@ import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
 import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
 import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
 
+import org.json.simple.JSONObject;
+import org.json.simple.parser.JSONParser;
+
 import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
 import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
 import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
@@ -104,13 +108,17 @@ public abstract class XMLSAXBroadcast extends Broadcast
             {
                 postbackURL = getTrimmedText();
             }
-            else if (qName.equals(DAILY_STOP_KEY))
-            {
-            	daily_stop = getTrimmedText();
-            }
-            else if (qName.equals(DAILY_START_KEY))
+            else if (qName.equals(CHANNEL_KEY))
             {
-            	daily_start = getTrimmedText();
+    	    	JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
+	    		String channel_str = getTrimmedText();
+    	    	try {
+					channel_json = (JSONObject) jsonParser.parse(channel_str);
+				} catch (org.json.simple.parser.ParseException e) {
+					throw new RuntimeException(String.format("<%s> is not json string: %s", CHANNEL_KEY, channel_str));
+				}
+    	    	daily_stop = (String)channel_json.get(DAILY_STOP_KEY);
+    	    	daily_stop = (String)channel_json.get(DAILY_START_KEY);
             }
             else if (inRecipientProp)
             {