org.springframework.data.couchbase.core.convert.translation

Interface TranslationService

All Known Implementing Classes:

JacksonTranslationService

public interface TranslationService

Defines a translation service to encode/decode responses into the CouchbaseStorable format.

Author:

Michael Nitschinger

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
CouchbaseStorable	decode(String source, CouchbaseStorable target) Decodes the target format into a CouchbaseDocument
<T> T	decodeFragment(String source, Class<T> target) Decodes an ad-hoc JSON object into a corresponding "case" class.
String	encode(CouchbaseStorable source) Encodes a JSON String into the target format.

Method Detail

encode

String encode(CouchbaseStorable source)

Encodes a JSON String into the target format.

Parameters:

source - the source contents to encode.

Returns:

the encoded document representation.

decode

CouchbaseStorable decode(String source,
                         CouchbaseStorable target)

Decodes the target format into a CouchbaseDocument

Parameters:

source - the source formatted document.

target - the target of the populated data.

Returns:

a properly populated document to work with.

decodeFragment

<T> T decodeFragment(String source,
                     Class<T> target)

Decodes an ad-hoc JSON object into a corresponding "case" class.

Type Parameters:

T - the target class.

Parameters:

source - the JSON for the ad-hoc JSON object (from a N1QL query for instance).

target - the target class information.

Returns:

an ad-hoc instance of the decoded JSON into the corresponding "case" class.