simplexml.parsing

Interface ObjectDeserializer

public interface ObjectDeserializer

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	convert(String value) Used for turning attributes and tag names into objects.
default Object	convert(XmlElement element) Used in most cases when we have an Element and we need to convert it into an Object.
default <T> T	convert(XmlElement element, Class<T> clazz)
static Map<Class<?>,ObjectDeserializer>	defaultDeserializers()

Method Detail

convert

Object convert(String value)

Used for turning attributes and tag names into objects. XML that looks like this: <tag attribute="value"></tag> and also: <map> <value>something</value> </map>

Parameters:

value - the value to convert

Returns:

the object, null is allowed

convert

default Object convert(XmlElement element)

Used in most cases when we have an Element and we need to convert it into an Object. The default implementation takes the text node and calls the convert(String) method. But if you want to convert something special you will probably want to override this method.

Parameters:

element - the XML element to convert

Returns:

the object, null is allowed

convert

default <T> T convert(XmlElement element,
                      Class<T> clazz)

defaultDeserializers

static Map<Class<?>,ObjectDeserializer> defaultDeserializers()