com.thoughtworks.xstream.hibernate.converter

Class HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter

java.lang.Object

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.AbstractCollectionConverter

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.MapConverter

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.TreeMapConverter

com.thoughtworks.xstream.hibernate.converter.HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Converter, ConverterMatcher

public class HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter
extends TreeMapConverter

A converter for Hibernate's PersistentSortedMap and for the SortedMapProxy from Hibernate's Envers add-on. The converter will drop any reference to the Hibernate collection and emit at serialization time an equivalent JDK collection instead.

Since:

1.4

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter(Mapper mapper) Construct a HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	canConvert(java.lang.Class type) Determines whether the converter can marshall a particular type.
java.lang.Object	unmarshal(HierarchicalStreamReader reader, UnmarshallingContext context) Convert textual data back into an object.

Methods inherited from class com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.TreeMapConverter

marshal, marshalComparator, populateTreeMap, unmarshalComparator

Methods inherited from class com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.MapConverter

createCollection, populateMap, populateMap, putCurrentEntryIntoMap

Methods inherited from class com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.AbstractCollectionConverter

mapper, readBareItem, readCompleteItem, readItem, writeBareItem, writeCompleteItem, writeItem, writeNullItem

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter

public HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter(Mapper mapper)

Construct a HibernatePersistentSortedMapConverter.

Parameters:

mapper -

Since:

1.4

Method Detail

canConvert

public boolean canConvert(java.lang.Class type)

Description copied from interface: ConverterMatcher

Determines whether the converter can marshall a particular type.

Specified by:

canConvert in interface ConverterMatcher

Overrides:

canConvert in class MapConverter

Parameters:

type - the Class representing the object type to be converted

unmarshal

public java.lang.Object unmarshal(HierarchicalStreamReader reader,
                                  UnmarshallingContext context)

Description copied from interface: Converter

Convert textual data back into an object.

Specified by:

unmarshal in interface Converter

Overrides:

unmarshal in class TreeMapConverter

Parameters:

reader - The stream to read the text from.

Returns:

The resulting object.