Package com.thoughtworks.xstream.hibernate.converter

Class HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter

java.lang.Object

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.AbstractCollectionConverter

com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.CollectionConverter

com.thoughtworks.xstream.hibernate.converter.HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Converter, ConverterMatcher

public class HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter
extends CollectionConverter

A converter for Hibernate's PersistentBag, PersistentList and PersistentSet and for ListProxy and SetProxy from Hibernate's Envers add-on. The converter will drop any reference to the Hibernate collection and emit at serialization time an equivalent JDK collection instead.

Since:

1.4

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter(Mapper mapper)	Construct a HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	canConvert(Class type)	Determines whether the converter can marshall a particular type.
Object	unmarshal(HierarchicalStreamReader reader, UnmarshallingContext context)	Convert textual data back into an object.

Methods inherited from class com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.CollectionConverter

addCurrentElementToCollection, createCollection, marshal, populateCollection, populateCollection

Methods inherited from class com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.collections.AbstractCollectionConverter

mapper, readBareItem, readCompleteItem, readItem, writeBareItem, writeCompleteItem, writeItem, writeNullItem

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter

public HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter(Mapper mapper)

Construct a HibernatePersistentCollectionConverter.

Parameters:

mapper -

Since:

1.4

Method Details

canConvert

public boolean canConvert(Class type)

Description copied from interface: ConverterMatcher

Determines whether the converter can marshall a particular type.

Specified by:

canConvert in interface ConverterMatcher

Overrides:

canConvert in class CollectionConverter

Parameters:

type - the Class representing the object type to be converted

unmarshal

public Object unmarshal(HierarchicalStreamReader reader,
 UnmarshallingContext context)

Description copied from interface: Converter

Convert textual data back into an object.

Specified by:

unmarshal in interface Converter

Overrides:

unmarshal in class CollectionConverter

Parameters:

reader - The stream to read the text from.

context -

Returns:

The resulting object.