1 /*
2 * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kns.service;
17
18 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
19
20 /**
21 * This interface defines methods that an XmlObjectSerializer Service must provide. This will wrap our needs for xml to object and
22 * object to xml functionality.
23 *
24 *
25 */
26 public interface XmlObjectSerializerService {
27 /**
28 * Marshals out XML from an object instance.
29 *
30 * @param object
31 * @return
32 */
33 public String toXml(Object object);
34
35 /**
36 * Retrieves an Object instance from a String of XML - unmarshals.
37 *
38 * @param xml
39 * @return
40 */
41 public Object fromXml(String xml);
42
43 /**
44 * Renders an org.w3c.Node to a String.
45 */
46 public String writeNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node, boolean indent) throws TransformerException;
47
48 }