org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.capabilities
Interface OutputSerializable

All Superinterfaces:

EntityProvider, Formats, Outputable

public interface OutputSerializable
extends Outputable

Allows this entity to better control the data that is going to be output by allowing it to intercept the entities and return them as whatever objects which should be serialized for output, if you just want to use the internal methods to handle formatting the output then simply use Outputable

Author:

Aaron Zeckoski (aaron@caret.cam.ac.uk)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.extension.Formats

ALL_KNOWN_FORMATS, ATOM, ATOM_EXTENSIONS, ATOM_MIME_TYPE, FORM, FORM_EXTENSIONS, FORM_MIME_TYPE, HTML, HTML_EXTENSIONS, HTML_MIME_TYPE, JSON, JSON_EXTENSIONS, JSON_MIME_TYPE, JSONP, JSONP_EXTENSIONS, JSONP_MIME_TYPE, RSS, RSS_EXTENSIONS, RSS_MIME_TYPE, TXT, TXT_EXTENSIONS, TXT_MIME_TYPE, UTF_8, XML, XML_EXTENSIONS, XML_MIME_TYPE

Method Summary

Object

makeSerializableObject(EntityReference ref, Object entity) Take the entity and convert it to whatever objects (Map, List, String, etc.) that you want to output, this will be called every time that an entity is about to serialized but only if the type of object matches that of the entities handled by your provider

Methods inherited from interface org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.capabilities.Outputable

getHandledOutputFormats

Methods inherited from interface org.sakaiproject.entitybroker.entityprovider.EntityProvider

getEntityPrefix

Method Detail

makeSerializableObject

Object makeSerializableObject(EntityReference ref,
                              Object entity)

Take the entity and convert it to whatever objects (Map, List, String, etc.) that you want to output, this will be called every time that an entity is about to serialized but only if the type of object matches that of the entities handled by your provider

Parameters:

the - entity reference for the current entity

entity - an object of the type handled by your provider

Returns:

the object you want to be serialized