de.timroes.axmlrpc.serializer

Interface Serializer

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArraySerializer, Base64Serializer, BooleanSerializer, DateTimeSerializer, DoubleSerializer, IntSerializer, NullSerializer, StringSerializer, StructSerializer

public interface Serializer

A Serializer is responsible to serialize a specific type of data to an xml tag and deserialize the content of this xml tag back to an object.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.Object	deserialize(org.w3c.dom.Element content) This method takes an xml type element and deserialize it to an object.
XmlElement	serialize(java.lang.Object object) This method takes an object and returns a representation as a string containing the right xml type tag.

Method Detail

deserialize

java.lang.Object deserialize(org.w3c.dom.Element content)
                             throws XMLRPCException

This method takes an xml type element and deserialize it to an object.

Parameters:

content - Must be an xml element of a specific type.

Returns:

The deserialized content.

Throws:

XMLRPCException - Will be thrown whenervt the deserialization fails.

serialize

XmlElement serialize(java.lang.Object object)

This method takes an object and returns a representation as a string containing the right xml type tag. The returning string must be useable within a value tag.

Parameters:

object - The object that should be serialized.

Returns:

An XmlElement representation of the object.