001/*
002  GRANITE DATA SERVICES
003  Copyright (C) 2011 GRANITE DATA SERVICES S.A.S.
004
005  This file is part of Granite Data Services.
006
007  Granite Data Services is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
008  it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by
009  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
010  option) any later version.
011
012  Granite Data Services is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
013  WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
014  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License
015  for more details.
016
017  You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
018  along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
019*/
020
021package org.granite.messaging.amf.io.util.externalizer;
022
023import java.io.IOException;
024import java.io.ObjectInput;
025import java.io.ObjectOutput;
026import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
027import java.util.List;
028
029import org.granite.messaging.amf.io.util.Property;
030import org.granite.util.XMap;
031
032/**
033 * @author Franck WOLFF
034 */
035public interface Externalizer {
036
037        public void configure(XMap properties);
038        
039    public Object newInstance(String type, ObjectInput in)
040        throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, InstantiationException, InvocationTargetException, IllegalAccessException;
041
042    public void readExternal(Object o, ObjectInput in) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException, IllegalAccessException;
043
044    public void writeExternal(Object o, ObjectOutput out) throws IOException, IllegalAccessException;
045
046    public List<Property> findOrderedFields(Class<?> clazz);
047
048    public int accept(Class<?> clazz);
049}