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Interface GenericEdgeRealizer.UserDataHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

SimpleUserDataHandler

Enclosing class:

GenericEdgeRealizer

public static interface GenericEdgeRealizer.UserDataHandler

This interface is used by GenericEdgeRealizer to delegate the copying and serialization/deserialization of any user-defined data to. Registered implementations of this interface will be used to perform the actual serialization and deserialization of the user-defined data object. Additionally, implementations are responsible for creating appropriate copies of the user-defined data.

Method Summary

Object	copyUserData(EdgeRealizer srcContext, Object srcData, EdgeRealizer targetContext) Copies the user-defined data appropriately.
Object	readUserData(EdgeRealizer context, ObjectInputStream ois) Retrieves the user-defined data object from the ObjectInputStream.
void	storeUserData(EdgeRealizer context, Object userData, ObjectOutputStream oos) Stores the user-defined data object to the ObjectOutputStream.

Method Detail

storeUserData

void storeUserData(EdgeRealizer context,
                   Object userData,
                   ObjectOutputStream oos)
                   throws IOException

Stores the user-defined data object to the ObjectOutputStream. Used for YGF serialization.

Throws:

IOException - if an exception occurs

Parameters:

context - the edge to store the user-defined data

userData - the user-defined data object

oos - the stream to store the user-defined data object to

readUserData

Object readUserData(EdgeRealizer context,
                    ObjectInputStream ois)
                    throws IOException

Retrieves the user-defined data object from the ObjectInputStream. Used for YGF deserialization.

Throws:

IOException - if an exception occurs

Parameters:

context - the edge to read the user-defined data for

ois - the stream to read the user-defined data object from

Returns:

the user-defined data object as read in from the stream

copyUserData

Object copyUserData(EdgeRealizer srcContext,
                    Object srcData,
                    EdgeRealizer targetContext)

Copies the user-defined data appropriately.

Parameters:

srcContext - the edge that will be copied

srcData - the data associated with the srcContext

targetContext - the edge the copy will be associated with

Returns:

the copy that will be stored with the targetContext