y.util
Interface ObjectStore

All Known Implementing Classes:

BeanSerializer

public interface ObjectStore

This interface will be implemented by classes which are able to serialize objects into a number of key value pairs.

Method Summary

void	restore(Object object, Map propertyMap, ObjectStringConverter converter) This method takes an object, uses the supplied converter to restore its attributes stored in the propertyMap using the converter to do the string to object conversion.
void	store(Object object, Map propertyMap, ObjectStringConverter converter) This method takes an object, uses the supplied converter to transform the attributes of the object into string values and puts the attribute-name string-value pairs in the supplied propertyMap.

Method Detail

store

public void store(Object object,
                  Map propertyMap,
                  ObjectStringConverter converter)

This method takes an object, uses the supplied converter to transform the attributes of the object into string values and puts the attribute-name string-value pairs in the supplied propertyMap.

Parameters:

object - the object whose attributes will be stored in the propertyMap

propertyMap - the map, which contains the key value pairs, both keys and values must be Strings.

converter - the converter, which must be used to convert simple objects to corresponding String forms

restore

public void restore(Object object,
                    Map propertyMap,
                    ObjectStringConverter converter)

This method takes an object, uses the supplied converter to restore its attributes stored in the propertyMap using the converter to do the string to object conversion. supplied propertyMap.

Parameters:

object - the object whose attributes will be restored from the propertyMap

propertyMap - the map, which contains the key value pairs, both keys and values are Strings.

converter - the converter, which should be used to convert the string representations to the object's attributes.