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Interface Adapter

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAdapter

public interface Adapter

If you want to serialize objects that do not comply to the java beans conventions or objects that were provided by a third party, you should write an Adapter.

Adapters are classes that hold the object you want to serialize. They expose properties through methods, that are easily serializable by SIXBS. I.e. form an adapter between the actual object and the format SIXBS can process.

If you try to write an object that has an adapter, this adapter is instantiated and then the Adapter is written, not the object. When you read a serialized Adapter, it instantiates the original object, sets all necessary properties and returns the object, not the adapter.

A class implementing this interface must have a no arg constructor and a one arg constructor. The arg must be of the type the adapter is adapting to. The adapter class must be named [classname]Adapt and has to be present in the adapter searchpath (see AdapterFinder).

SIXBS will use the get and set methods of the adapter to (de)serialize the bean. Beans using this mechanism have to have a no arg constructor.

Version:

$Id: Adapter.java,v 1.1 2001/05/06 14:55:01 Hendrik Exp $

Author:

Hendrik Schreiber

See Also:

AdapterFinder

Field Summary

static String

vcid Source-Version

Method Summary

Object

deserialize() Returns the object that has been initialized from XML by calling the setter methods of a class implementing this interface. Example: In ArrayListAdapt this method returns an initialized ArrayList.

Field Detail

vcid

public static final String vcid

Source-Version

Method Detail

deserialize

public Object deserialize()
                   throws SIXBSException

Returns the object that has been initialized from XML by calling the setter methods of a class implementing this interface.

Example:

In ArrayListAdapt this method returns an initialized ArrayList. The ArrayList has been initialized by the Adapter, when the ListAdapt.setList(Object[]) method was called by SIXBSReader.