org.apache.axis.encoding
Interface Serializer

All Superinterfaces:
java.io.Serializable, Serializer
All Known Implementing Classes:
ElementSerializer, SimpleSerializer, ArraySerializer, MapSerializer, EnumSerializer, Base64Serializer, DateSerializer, JAFDataHandlerSerializer, BeanSerializer, HexSerializer

public interface Serializer
extends Serializer

This interface describes the AXIS Serializer. An Axis compliant Serializer must provide one or more of the following methods: public (Class javaType, QName xmlType) public () This will allow for construction of generic factories that introspect the class to determine how to construct a deserializer. The xmlType, javaType arguments are filled in with the values known by the factory.


Method Summary
 void serialize(QName name, org.xml.sax.Attributes attributes, java.lang.Object value, SerializationContext context)
          Serialize an element named name, with the indicated attributes and value.
 boolean writeSchema(Types types)
          Return XML schema for the specified type, suitable for insertion into the element of a WSDL document.
 
Methods inherited from interface javax.xml.rpc.encoding.Serializer
getMechanismType
 

Method Detail

serialize

public void serialize(QName name,
                      org.xml.sax.Attributes attributes,
                      java.lang.Object value,
                      SerializationContext context)
               throws java.io.IOException
Serialize an element named name, with the indicated attributes and value.
Parameters:
name - is the element name
attributes - are the attributes...serialize is free to add more.
value - is the value
context - is the SerializationContext

writeSchema

public boolean writeSchema(Types types)
                    throws java.lang.Exception
Return XML schema for the specified type, suitable for insertion into the element of a WSDL document.
Parameters:
types - the Java2WSDL Types object which holds the context for the WSDL being generated.
Returns:
true if we wrote a schema, false if we didn't.
See Also:
Types


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