com.tensegrity.composite.style.persistence
Class StyleDescriptorSerializer

java.lang.Object
  com.tensegrity.composite.style.persistence.StyleDescriptorSerializer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializer

public class StyleDescriptorSerializer

extends java.lang.Object

implements Serializer

The StyleDescriptorSerializer creates an AttributeList from a given StyleDescriptor instance by creating simple Attributes for the name and type part and string based references to the (hopefully) previously stored StyleItems.

Version:

$Id: StyleDescriptorSerializer.java,v 1.17 2005/07/18 10:35:31 MichaelKegel Exp $

Author:

Gilles Iachelini

Constructor Summary

StyleDescriptorSerializer(StyleDescriptor item)
Creates a new StyleDescriptorSerializer.

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	getTypeName(int type) This method returns the matching string constant to a given CompositeType constant.
AttributeList	serialize() Translates the information of the object to be serialized into an AttributeList.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StyleDescriptorSerializer

public StyleDescriptorSerializer(StyleDescriptor item)

Creates a new StyleDescriptorSerializer.

Parameters:

item - to serialize.

Method Detail

serialize

public AttributeList serialize()
                        throws SerializeException

Description copied from interface: Serializer

Translates the information of the object to be serialized into an AttributeList.

Specified by:

serialize in interface Serializer

Returns:

the list of translated information.

Throws:

SerializeException - is thrown whenever an error occurs while serializing the given object.

See Also:

Serializer.serialize()

getTypeName

public static final java.lang.String getTypeName(int type)
                                          throws SerializeException

This method returns the matching string constant to a given CompositeType constant.

Parameters:

type - the integer constant of a Composite.

Returns:

the Composite Type constant as string.

Throws:

SerializeException - thrown if the type identifier is smaller than 0 or bigger than the length of the StyleConstantsPersistence#compositeTypeFormats array.