redstone.xmlrpc.serializers
Class IntrospectingSerializer

java.lang.Object
  redstone.xmlrpc.serializers.IntrospectingSerializer

All Implemented Interfaces:

XmlRpcCustomSerializer

public class IntrospectingSerializer
extends java.lang.Object
implements XmlRpcCustomSerializer

Serializes any Java object using Introspection to learn which properties that the object exposes. Note: this code is poorly tested. Use at your own risk. It does *not* support circular references; only directed graphs are supported.

Author:

Greger Olsson

Constructor Summary

IntrospectingSerializer()

Method Summary

java.lang.Class	getSupportedClass() Returns the class of objects this serializer knows how to handle.
void	serialize(java.lang.Object value, java.io.Writer writer, XmlRpcSerializer builtInSerializer) Asks the custom serializer to serialize the supplied value into the supplied writer.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

IntrospectingSerializer

public IntrospectingSerializer()

Method Detail

getSupportedClass

public java.lang.Class getSupportedClass()

Description copied from interface: XmlRpcCustomSerializer

Returns the class of objects this serializer knows how to handle.

Specified by:

getSupportedClass in interface XmlRpcCustomSerializer

Returns:

The class of objects interpretable to this serializer.

serialize

public void serialize(java.lang.Object value,
                      java.io.Writer writer,
                      XmlRpcSerializer builtInSerializer)
               throws XmlRpcException,
                      java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: XmlRpcCustomSerializer

Asks the custom serializer to serialize the supplied value into the supplied writer. The supplied value will be of the type reported in getSupportedClass() or of a type extending therefrom.

Specified by:

serialize in interface XmlRpcCustomSerializer

Parameters:

value - The object to serialize.

writer - The writer to place the serialized data.

builtInSerializer - The built-in serializer used by the client or the server.

Throws:

XmlRpcException - if the value somehow could not be serialized. Many serializers rely on the built in serializer which also may throw this exception.

java.io.IOException - if there was an error serializing the value through the writer. The exception is the exception thrown by the writer, which in most cases will be a StringWriter, in which case this exception will never occurr. XmlRpcSerializer and custom serializers may, however, be used outside of the XML-RPC library to encode information in XML-RPC structs, in which case the writer potentially could be writing the information over a socket stream for instance.