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- // Encoder.java
- // By Ned Etcode
- // Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997 Netscape Communications Corp. All rights reserved.
-
- package netscape.util;
-
- /** The Encoder interface describes the API through which objects encode
- * their essential state as a set of key-value pairs. Archiver implements
- * this API to encode the state of a graph of objects into an Archive.
- *
- * @see Codable
- * @see Archiver
- * @see Archive
- */
- public interface Encoder {
- /** Encodes the boolean <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeBoolean(String key, boolean value)
- throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the boolean array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeBooleanArray(String key, boolean value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the character <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeChar(String key, char value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the character array <b>value</b>, associating it with the
- * string <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeCharArray(String key, char value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the byte <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeByte(String key, byte value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the byte array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeByteArray(String key, byte value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the short <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeShort(String key, short value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the short array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeShortArray(String key, short value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the integer <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeInt(String key, int value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the integer array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeIntArray(String key, int value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the long <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeLong(String key, long value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the long array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeLongArray(String key, long value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the float <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeFloat(String key, float value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the float array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeFloatArray(String key, float value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the double <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeDouble(String key, double value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the double array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeDoubleArray(String key, double value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the string <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeString(String key, String value) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes the string array <b>value</b>, associating it with the string
- * <b>key</b>.
- */
- public void encodeStringArray(String key, String value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes a reference to another Codable object. If multiple objects
- * reference the same object and each passes it to <b>encodeObject()</b>,
- * only one copy of that object is actually encoded.
- */
- public void encodeObject(String key, Object value)
- throws CodingException;
-
- /** Encodes an array of Codable objects. The reference to the array is
- * not shared, but references to the objects in the array are.
- */
- public void encodeObjectArray(String key, Object value[], int offset,
- int length) throws CodingException;
- }
-