org.springframework.oxm

Interface Marshaller

All Known Subinterfaces:

GenericMarshaller, MimeMarshaller

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMarshaller, CastorMarshaller, 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 Objects. Instead, a object class must be registered with the marshaller, or have a common base class.

Since:

3.0

Author:

Arjen Poutsma

See Also:

Unmarshaller

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
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

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

marshal

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

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:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

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