uk.org.ogsadai.common.serializer
Class SerializerUtils

java.lang.Object
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public class SerializerUtils

extends java.lang.Object

A set of useful methods related to serialization, deserialization and building and parsing SOAP messages.

Author:

The OGSA-DAI Project Team

COPYRIGHT_NOTICE

private static final java.lang.String COPYRIGHT_NOTICE

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Constant Field Values

LOG

private static final DAILogger LOG

SerializerUtils

public SerializerUtils()

toMessage

public static org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement[] toMessage(javax.xml.namespace.QName name,
                                                                 java.lang.Object value)

Create an array of org.apache.axis.nessage.MessageElement objects where the first in the array contains an element with the given name and value.

If the given object is a string, qualified name or byte array then an attribute of form xsd:type="xsd:string", xsd:type="xsd:QName" or xsd:type="xsd:base64Binary" is added to the first MessageElement in the array.

This is because this information, though added anyway, was being removed just prior to transmission of the message for reasons that are unclear.

Parameters:

name - Qualified name of message element.

value - Content of message element.

Returns:

an array containing a single SOAP message element

toObject

public static java.lang.Object toObject(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement[] elements)
                                 throws DAISerializationException

Deserialize the first MessageElement in the given array into an object.

Parameters:

elements - Array of MessageElements.

Returns:

deserialized object or null if elements is null or empty.

Throws:

DAISerializationException - if an XML type is unsupported or if it has no deserializer or another problem occurs.

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toObject(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement)

toObject

public static java.lang.Object toObject(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement element)
                                 throws DAISerializationException

Deserialize the given MessageElement into an object.

Parameters:

element - The MessageElement to be deserialized.

Returns:

deserialized object or null if elements is null.

Throws:

DAISerializationException - if an XML type is unsupported or if it has no deserializer or another problem occurs.

toDocument

public static org.w3c.dom.Document toDocument(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement[] elements)
                                       throws DAISerializationException

Deserialize the first MessageElement in the given array into a DOM Document

Parameters:

elements - Array of MessageElements.

Returns:

deserialized Document or null if elements is null or empty.

Throws:

DAISerializationException - if a problem occurs during deserialization.

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toDocument(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement)

toDocument

public static org.w3c.dom.Document toDocument(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement element)
                                       throws DAISerializationException

Deserialize the given MessageElement into a DOM Document.

Parameters:

element - MessageElement to be deserialized.

Returns:

deserialized Document.

Throws:

DAISerializationException - if a problem occurs during deserialization.

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toElement(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement)

toElement

public static org.w3c.dom.Element[] toElement(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement[] elements)
                                       throws DAISerializationException

Deserialize the MessageElements in the given array into DOM Elements

Parameters:

elements - array of MessageElements.

Returns:

deserialized Elements or null if elements is null or empty.

Throws:

DAISerializationException - if a problem occurs during deserialization.

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toElement(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement)

toElement

public static org.w3c.dom.Element toElement(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement element)
                                     throws DAISerializationException

Deserialize the given MessageElement into a DOM Element.

Parameters:

element - MessageElement to be deserialized.

Returns:

deserialized Element.

Throws:

DAISerializationException - if a problem occurs during deserialization.