json/src/main/java/org/apidesign/html/json/spi/Transfer.java
author Jaroslav Tulach <jaroslav.tulach@netbeans.org>
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:44:34 +0100
changeset 551 7ca2253fa86d
parent 534 15907d1499fb
child 746 5a1cc4708c34
permissions -rw-r--r--
Updating copyright headers to mention current year
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    43 package org.apidesign.html.json.spi;
    44 
    45 import java.io.IOException;
    46 import java.io.InputStream;
    47 import org.apidesign.html.context.spi.Contexts.Builder;
    48 
    49 /** A {@link Builder service provider interface} responsible for 
    50  * conversion of JSON objects to Java ones and vice-versa.
    51  *
    52  * @author Jaroslav Tulach <jtulach@netbeans.org>
    53  */
    54 public interface Transfer {
    55     /**
    56      * Called to inspect properties of an object (usually a JSON or JavaScript
    57      * wrapper).
    58      *
    59      * @param obj the object to inspect
    60      * @param props the names of properties to check on the object
    61      * <code>obj</code>
    62      * @param values array of the same length as <code>props</code> should be
    63      * filled by values of properties on the <code>obj</code>. If a property is
    64      * not defined, a <code>null</code> value should be stored in the array
    65      */
    66     public void extract(Object obj, String[] props, Object[] values);
    67     
    68     /** Reads content of a stream and creates its JSON representation.
    69      * The returned object is implementation dependant. It however needs
    70      * to be acceptable as first argument of {@link #extract(java.lang.Object, java.lang.String[], java.lang.Object[]) extract}
    71      * method.
    72      * 
    73      * @param is input stream to read data from
    74      * @return an object representing the JSON data
    75      * @throws IOException if something goes wrong
    76      */
    77     public Object toJSON(InputStream is) throws IOException;
    78     
    79     /** Starts the JSON or JSONP query. 
    80      * 
    81      * @param call description of the call to make
    82      */
    83     public void loadJSON(JSONCall call);
    84     
    85 }