rsb.converter

Interface ConverterRepository<WireType>

Type Parameters:

WireType - the kind of wire registered converters can deal with

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultConverterRepository

public interface ConverterRepository<WireType>

Maintains a collection of converters for a specific wire format. Each converter has a wire type describing the actual message that is written on the wire and a data type that indicates which data it can serialize on the wire.

Author:

swrede

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	addConverter(Converter<WireType> converter) Adds a new converter to the repository.
ConverterSelectionStrategy<WireType>	getConvertersForDeserialization() This method queries the converter map for deseralizable data types and returns an UnambiguousConverterMap for the chosen WireType to the caller.
ConverterSelectionStrategy<WireType>	getConvertersForSerialization() This method queries the converter map for seralizable data types and returns an UnambiguousConverterMap for the chosen WireType to the caller.

Method Detail

getConvertersForSerialization

ConverterSelectionStrategy<WireType> getConvertersForSerialization()

This method queries the converter map for seralizable data types and returns an UnambiguousConverterMap for the chosen WireType to the caller.

Returns:

ConverterSelectionStrategy object for serialization

getConvertersForDeserialization

ConverterSelectionStrategy<WireType> getConvertersForDeserialization()

This method queries the converter map for deseralizable data types and returns an UnambiguousConverterMap for the chosen WireType to the caller.

Returns:

ConverterSelectionStrategy object for deserialization

addConverter

void addConverter(Converter<WireType> converter)

Adds a new converter to the repository.

Parameters:

converter - new converter