Interface Marshaller<V,S>

Type Parameters:

V - the value type

S - the marshalled type

All Superinterfaces:

Predicate<Object>, Predicate<Object>

All Known Subinterfaces:

ByteBufferMarshaller

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractByteBufferMarshaller, IdentifierMarshaller, JavaByteBufferMarshaller, JBossByteBufferMarshaller, MarshalledValueMarshaller, ProtoStreamByteBufferMarshaller, WrappedMessageByteBufferMarshaller

public interface Marshaller<V,S>
extends Predicate<Object>

Marshals an object to and from its serialized form.

Author:

Paul Ferraro

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface Predicate

ALWAYS, NEVER

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static <T> Marshaller<T,T>	identity()	An identity marshaller that does no marshalling.
V	read(S value)	Reads a value from its marshalled form.
S	write(V value)	Writes a value to its serialized form

Methods inherited from interface Predicate

test

Methods inherited from interface Predicate

and, compose, composeBinary, composeDouble, composeInt, composeLong, handle, negate, or, xor

Method Details

identity

static <T> Marshaller<T,T> identity()

An identity marshaller that does no marshalling.

Type Parameters:

T - the value type

Returns:

an identity marshaller

read

V read(S value)
throws IOException

Reads a value from its marshalled form.

Parameters:

value - the marshalled form

Returns:

an unmarshalled value

Throws:

IOException - if the value could not be read

write

S write(V value)
 throws IOException

Writes a value to its serialized form

Parameters:

value - a value to marshal.

Returns:

the serialized form of the value

Throws:

IOException - if the value could not be written