org.apache.xml.security.encryption
Interface Serializer

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSerializer, DocumentSerializer, TransformSerializer

public interface Serializer

Converts Strings into Nodes and visa versa.

Method Summary

byte[]	canonSerializeToByteArray(Node node) Use the Canonicalizer to serialize the node
Node	deserialize(byte[] source, Node ctx)
byte[]	serializeToByteArray(Element element) Returns a byte[] representation of the specified Element.
byte[]	serializeToByteArray(NodeList content) Returns a byte[] representation of the specified NodeList.
void	setCanonicalizer(Canonicalizer canon) Set the Canonicalizer object to use.

Method Detail

setCanonicalizer

void setCanonicalizer(Canonicalizer canon)

Set the Canonicalizer object to use.

serializeToByteArray

byte[] serializeToByteArray(Element element)
                            throws Exception

Returns a byte[] representation of the specified Element.

Parameters:

element - the Element to serialize.

Returns:

the byte[] representation of the serilaized Element.

Throws:

Exception

serializeToByteArray

byte[] serializeToByteArray(NodeList content)
                            throws Exception

Returns a byte[] representation of the specified NodeList.

Parameters:

content - the NodeList to serialize.

Returns:

the byte[] representation of the serialized NodeList.

Throws:

Exception

canonSerializeToByteArray

byte[] canonSerializeToByteArray(Node node)
                                 throws Exception

Use the Canonicalizer to serialize the node

Parameters:

node -

Returns:

the (byte[]) canonicalization of the node

Throws:

Exception

deserialize

Node deserialize(byte[] source,
                 Node ctx)
                 throws XMLEncryptionException

Parameters:

source -

ctx -

Returns:

the Node resulting from the parse of the source

Throws:

XMLEncryptionException