01: /*
02: * Copyright 2005-2006 The Kuali Foundation.
03: *
04: * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
05: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
06: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php
09: *
10: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14: * limitations under the License.
15: */
16: package org.kuali.core.service;
17:
18: import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
19:
20: /**
21: * This interface defines methods that an XmlObjectSerializer Service must provide. This will wrap our needs for xml to object and
22: * object to xml functionality.
23: *
24: *
25: */
26: public interface XmlObjectSerializerService {
27: /**
28: * Marshals out XML from an object instance.
29: *
30: * @param object
31: * @return
32: */
33: public String toXml(Object object);
34:
35: /**
36: * Retrieves an Object instance from a String of XML - unmarshals.
37: *
38: * @param xml
39: * @return
40: */
41: public Object fromXml(String xml);
42:
43: /**
44: * Renders an org.w3c.Node to a String.
45: */
46: public String writeNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node, boolean indent)
47: throws TransformerException;
48:
49: }
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