net.sf.saxon.value

Interface AnyExternalObject

All Superinterfaces:

GroundedValue, Item, Sequence

All Known Implementing Classes:

Bindery.FailureValue, ObjectValue, Tuple

public interface AnyExternalObject
extends Item

An external object is a fourth kind of Item (after nodes, atomic values, and functions): it acts as a wrapper for a Java object (or, in C#, a .NET object).

This interface deliberately does not use generics, enabling it to be used in the same way both in Java and C#.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ItemType	getItemType(TypeHierarchy th) Get the item type of the object
java.lang.Object	getWrappedObject() Get the Java (or C#) object that is wrapped by this AnyExternalObject

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.Item

atomize, getGenre, getLength, getStringValue, getUnicodeStringValue, head, isStreamed, itemAt, iterate, reduce, subsequence, toShortString

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.GroundedValue

asIterable, concatenate, containsNode, effectiveBooleanValue, materialize

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.Sequence

makeRepeatable

Method Detail

getWrappedObject

java.lang.Object getWrappedObject()

Get the Java (or C#) object that is wrapped by this AnyExternalObject

Returns:

the wrapped object

getItemType

ItemType getItemType(TypeHierarchy th)

Get the item type of the object

Parameters:

th - the type hierarchy

Returns:

the item type