org.springframework.ldap.core.simple
Interface ParameterizedContextMapper<T>

Type Parameters:

T -

All Superinterfaces:

ContextMapper

All Known Subinterfaces:

ParameterizedContextMapperWithControls<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractParameterizedContextMapper

public interface ParameterizedContextMapper<T>
extends ContextMapper

Extension of the ContextMapper interface. Uses Java 5 covariant return types to override the return type of the mapFromContext(Object) method to be the type parameter T.

Method Summary

T	mapFromContext(Object ctx) Map a single LDAP Context to an object.

Method Detail

mapFromContext

T mapFromContext(Object ctx)

Map a single LDAP Context to an object. The supplied Object ctx is the object from a single SearchResult, Binding, or a lookup operation.

Specified by:

mapFromContext in interface ContextMapper

Parameters:

ctx - the context to map to an object.

Returns:

an object built from the data in the context.