com.tensegrity.composite.style.persistence
Class StyleItemSerializer

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializer

public class StyleItemSerializer

extends java.lang.Object

implements Serializer

The StyleItemSerializer creates an AttributeList from a StyleItem instance. This class mainly consists of static methods to create suitable AttributeSets for all sorts of formats like they are defined in com.tensegrity.graphics.

Version:

$Id: StyleItemSerializer.java,v 1.32 2005/07/20 10:02:37 BurkhardWick Exp $

Author:

Gilles Iachelini

Constructor Summary

StyleItemSerializer(StyleItem item)
Constructor for StyleItemSerializer.

Method Summary

static java.lang.String	getTypeName(int type) This method returns the matching string constant to a given ItemType 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

StyleItemSerializer

public StyleItemSerializer(StyleItem item)

Constructor for StyleItemSerializer.

Parameters:

item - the StyleItem 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.

getTypeName

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

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

Parameters:

type - the integer constant of a style item.

Returns:

the Item Type constant as string.

Throws:

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