ca.jeb.protobuf

Interface IProtobufSerializer

All Known Implementing Classes:

ProtobufSerializer

public interface IProtobufSerializer

Interface for generating Protobuf serialization; generally only the ProtobufSerializer should implement this, but by all means, feel free to create your own!

Author:

Erick Bourgeois

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	fromProtobuf(com.google.protobuf.Message protoBuf, Class<? extends Object> pojoClazz) Implement the fromProtobuf method to set all ProtoBufAttributes on the supplied POJO class.
com.google.protobuf.Message	toProtobuf(Object pojo) Implement the toProtobuf method that will convert this object to a GeneratedMessage G.

Method Detail

toProtobuf

com.google.protobuf.Message toProtobuf(Object pojo)
                                throws ProtobufException

Implement the toProtobuf method that will convert this object to a GeneratedMessage G.

Parameters:

pojo - - POJO object to serialize into a Protobuf of generic type G

Returns:

Message - a new instance of a Protobuf GeneratedMessage, which implements Message

Throws:

ProtobufException

fromProtobuf

Object fromProtobuf(com.google.protobuf.Message protoBuf,
                    Class<? extends Object> pojoClazz)
             throws ProtobufException

Implement the fromProtobuf method to set all ProtoBufAttributes on the supplied POJO class.

Parameters:

protoBuf - - GeneratedMessage, the object to "deserialize" into a POJO

pojoClazz - - Class type to "deserialize" to

Returns:

Object - a new instance of pojoClazz

Throws:

ProtobufException