org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.converters.marshaller
Interface ObjectMarshaller<T extends Converter>

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArrayMarshaller, ArrayMarshaller, Base64ByteArrayMarshaller, ByteArrayMarshaller, ChainedConverterConfiguration.ChainedObjectMarshaller, ClosureOjectMarshaller, CollectionMarshaller, CollectionMarshaller, DateMarshaller, DateMarshaller, DeepDomainClassMarshaller, DeepDomainClassMarshaller, DomainClassMarshaller, DomainClassMarshaller, EnumMarshaller, EnumMarshaller, GenericJavaBeanMarshaller, GenericJavaBeanMarshaller, GroovyBeanMarshaller, GroovyBeanMarshaller, InstanceMethodBasedMarshaller, InstanceMethodBasedMarshaller, JavascriptDateMarshaller, MapMarshaller, MapMarshaller, ProxyUnwrappingMarshaller, ToStringBeanMarshaller, ToStringBeanMarshaller, ValidationErrorsMarshaller, ValidationErrorsMarshaller

public interface ObjectMarshaller<T extends Converter>

An ObjectMarshaller is responsible for converting a Java/Groovy Object graph to a serialized form (JSON,XML) The ObjectMarshaller implementation must use a a type parameter - either grails.convereters.JSON or grails.converters.XML and it should to be thread-safe

Since:

1.1

Author:

Siegfried Puchbauer

Method Summary

void	marshalObject(Object object, T converter) Performs the conversion
boolean	supports(Object object) Checks wheter the ObjectMarshaller is able/intended to support the given Object

Method Detail

supports

boolean supports(Object object)

Checks wheter the ObjectMarshaller is able/intended to support the given Object

Parameters:

object - the object which is about getting converted

Returns:

true if the marshaller can/should perform the marshalling, false otherwise

marshalObject

void marshalObject(Object object,
                   T converter)
                   throws ConverterException

Performs the conversion

Parameters:

object - the object which is about getting converted

converter - the Converter to use

Throws:

ConverterException - on failure