org.springframework.oxm
Interface Marshaller

All Known Subinterfaces:

GenericMarshaller, MimeMarshaller

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractJaxbMarshaller, AbstractMarshaller, AnnotationXStreamMarshaller, CastorMarshaller, Jaxb1Marshaller, Jaxb2Marshaller, JibxMarshaller, XmlBeansMarshaller, XStreamMarshaller

public interface Marshaller

Defines the contract for Object XML Mapping Marshallers. Implementations of this interface can serialize a given Object to an XML Stream.

Although the marshal method accepts a java.lang.Object as its first parameter, most Marshaller implementations cannot handle arbitrary java.lang.Object. Instead, a object class must be registered with the marshaller, or have a common base class.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Arjen Poutsma

Method Summary

void	marshal(Object graph, Result result) Marshals the object graph with the given root into the provided Result.
boolean	supports(Class clazz) Indicates whether this marshaller can marshal instances of the supplied type.

Method Detail

marshal

void marshal(Object graph,
             Result result)
             throws XmlMappingException,
                    IOException

Marshals the object graph with the given root into the provided Result.

Parameters:

graph - the root of the object graph to marshal

result - the result to marshal to

Throws:

XmlMappingException - if the given object cannot be marshalled to the result

IOException - if an I/O exception occurs

supports

boolean supports(Class clazz)

Indicates whether this marshaller can marshal instances of the supplied type.

Parameters:

clazz - the class that this marshaller is being asked if it can marshal

Returns:

true if this marshaller can indeed marshal instances of the supplied class; false otherwise