ugp.org.SerialX.Protocols

Class SelfSerializableProtocol

java.lang.Object

ugp.org.SerialX.Protocols.SerializationProtocol<SelfSerializable>

ugp.org.SerialX.Protocols.SelfSerializableProtocol

public class SelfSerializableProtocol
extends SerializationProtocol<SelfSerializable>

SelfSerializableProtocol is universal protocol to serialize any SelfSerializable instance. The condition of use is implementation of SelfSerializable interface and public constructor that can be called with content returned by specific SelfSerializable.serialize()!

Since:

1.2.2

Author:

PETO

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SelfSerializableProtocol()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.Class<? extends SelfSerializable>	applicableFor()
java.lang.Object[]	serialize(SelfSerializable object)
SelfSerializable	unserialize(java.lang.Class<? extends SelfSerializable> objectClass, java.lang.Object... args)

Methods inherited from class ugp.org.SerialX.Protocols.SerializationProtocol

equals, isActive, setActive, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SelfSerializableProtocol

public SelfSerializableProtocol()

Method Detail

serialize

public java.lang.Object[] serialize(SelfSerializable object)

Specified by:

serialize in class SerializationProtocol<SelfSerializable>

Parameters:

object - | The object.

Returns:

Array of objects to serialize created from given object.

unserialize

public SelfSerializable unserialize(java.lang.Class<? extends SelfSerializable> objectClass,
                                    java.lang.Object... args)
                             throws java.lang.Exception

Specified by:

unserialize in class SerializationProtocol<SelfSerializable>

Parameters:

objectClass - | The class of object that should be created. This can be useful when object T has children classes with same constructors. You can use reflection to make protocol working also for these child classes!

args - | Args to create obj T from.

Returns:

New instance of object T created from args.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - you can just pass exception to Serializer if you are not interested in handling it on your own.

applicableFor

public java.lang.Class<? extends SelfSerializable> applicableFor()

Specified by:

applicableFor in class SerializationProtocol<SelfSerializable>

Returns:

Class that can be serialized using this protocol. In other words it should return class of object T