de.cismet.cismap.commons

Interface ConvertableToXML<T>

All Known Subinterfaces:

LayerProperties, Style

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFeatureService, BasicStyle, DefaultLayerProperties, DocumentFeatureService, FeatureServiceAttribute, GMLFeatureService, H2FeatureService, JDBCFeatureService, ShapeFileFeatureService, SimplePostgisFeatureService, SimpleUpdateablePostgisFeatureService, StyleHistoryListModel, WebFeatureService

public interface ConvertableToXML<T>

Defines operations to serialize (and deserialize) an arbitrary object to a DOM Element Which properties of the object are serialized depends on the implementation.

Version:

$Revision$, $Date$

Author:

Throsten Hell, Pascal Dihé

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	TYPE_ATTRIBUTE Name of the mandatory type attribute, value shall be the canonical class name.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	initFromElement(org.jdom.Element element) Initialies an object that implements the ConvertableToXML interface from a DOM Element.
org.jdom.Element	toElement() Serializes the object that implements the ConvertableToXML interface to a DOM Element.

Field Detail

TYPE_ATTRIBUTE

static final String TYPE_ATTRIBUTE

Name of the mandatory type attribute, value shall be the canonical class name.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

toElement

org.jdom.Element toElement()

Serializes the object that implements the ConvertableToXML interface to a DOM Element. Although no further assumption is made about the XML Structure of the serialized object implementation classes shall at least provide an attribute type must contain the class name ob the object.

Returns:

XML representation of the object

initFromElement

void initFromElement(org.jdom.Element element)
              throws Exception

Initialies an object that implements the ConvertableToXML interface from a DOM Element.

Parameters:

element - the elemen to be reconstructed

Throws:

Exception - if the object could not be initialized