org.springframework.oxm
Interface Unmarshaller

All Known Subinterfaces:

GenericUnmarshaller, MimeUnmarshaller

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMarshaller, CastorMarshaller, Jaxb2Marshaller, JibxMarshaller, XmlBeansMarshaller, XStreamMarshaller

public interface Unmarshaller

Defines the contract for Object XML Mapping unmarshallers. Implementations of this interface can deserialize a given XML Stream to an Object graph.

Since:

3.0

Author:

Arjen Poutsma

See Also:

Marshaller

Method Summary

boolean	supports(Class<?> clazz) Indicates whether this unmarshaller can unmarshal instances of the supplied type.
Object	unmarshal(Source source) Unmarshals the given Source into an object graph.

Method Detail

supports

boolean supports(Class<?> clazz)

Indicates whether this unmarshaller can unmarshal instances of the supplied type.

Parameters:

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

Returns:

true if this unmarshaller can indeed unmarshal to the supplied class; false otherwise

unmarshal

Object unmarshal(Source source)
                 throws IOException,
                        XmlMappingException

Unmarshals the given Source into an object graph.

Parameters:

source - the source to marshal from

Returns:

the object graph

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

XmlMappingException - if the given source cannot be mapped to an object