org.xeril.xml
Interface XmlInfo

All Known Implementing Classes:

SimpleXmlInfo

public interface XmlInfo

This interface is the equivalent of BeanInfo but for XML. If you want to provide xml information for a class, you have to provide a class that implements this interface. For example if you have a class called com.socialnet.test.Test then you can provide a class called com.socialnet.test.TestXmlInfo that implements this interface and it will be taken into account for generating XML from your object or building your object from XML.

Method Summary

XmlMapDescriptor[]	getXmlMapDescriptors() You can associate a map descriptor with each field of your object.
java.lang.String	getXmlName() Returns the xml name that will be used.

Method Detail

getXmlMapDescriptors

public XmlMapDescriptor[] getXmlMapDescriptors()

You can associate a map descriptor with each field of your object. Basically a map descriptor is used to "map" a field name to an XML tag. It is also used to map a type.

Returns:

an array of map descriptors

See Also:

XmlMapDescriptor

getXmlName

public java.lang.String getXmlName()

Returns the xml name that will be used. It's probably not very nice to have the tag name of an object to be the name of its class, thus this method allows you to override this default.

Returns:

the xml name of this class