nextapp.echo.app.serial
Interface SerialPropertyPeer

All Known Subinterfaces:

ImageReferencePeer

All Known Implementing Classes:

AlignmentPeer, BooleanPeer, BorderPeer, CellLayoutDataPeer, ColorPeer, ColumnLayoutDataPeer, DatePeer, ExtentPeer, FillImageBorderPeer, FillImagePeer, FontPeer, GridLayoutDataPeer, InsetsPeer, IntegerPeer, LayoutDataPeer, MapPeer, NumberPeer, ResourceImageReferencePeer, RowLayoutDataPeer, SplitPaneLayoutDataPeer, StringPeer

public interface SerialPropertyPeer

Peer to serialize and deserialize property objects between Java and XML.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	toProperty(Context context, java.lang.Class objectClass, org.w3c.dom.Element propertyElement) Translates an XML representation of a property to a property value object.
void	toXml(Context context, java.lang.Class objectClass, org.w3c.dom.Element propertyElement, java.lang.Object propertyValue) Translates an object to an XML representation of a property.

Method Detail

toProperty

java.lang.Object toProperty(Context context,
                            java.lang.Class objectClass,
                            org.w3c.dom.Element propertyElement)
                            throws SerialException

Translates an XML representation of a property to a property value object.

Parameters:

context - the relevant Context

objectClass - the class of the property container

propertyElement - the XML <p> element to process

Returns:

the property value

Throws:

SerialException - when the property cannot be de-serialized.

toXml

void toXml(Context context,
           java.lang.Class objectClass,
           org.w3c.dom.Element propertyElement,
           java.lang.Object propertyValue)
           throws SerialException

Translates an object to an XML representation of a property.

Parameters:

context - the relevant context

objectClass - the class of the property container

propertyElement - the XML <p> element in which the property value should be rendered

propertyValue - the property value

Throws:

SerialException