com.ancientprogramming.fixedformat4j.format
Interface FixedFormatManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

FixedFormatManagerImpl

public interface FixedFormatManager

Interface used to interact with fixed format annotations. A FixedFormatManager is associated with one type of fixed format data.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Jacob von Eyben - http://www.ancientprogramming.com

Method Summary

<T> java.lang.String	export(java.lang.String data, T instance)
<T> java.lang.String	export(T instance)
<T> T	load(java.lang.Class<T> clazz, java.lang.String data) Create an instance of the fixedFormatClass and load the data string into the object according to the annotations.

Method Detail

load

<T> T load(java.lang.Class<T> clazz,
           java.lang.String data)
       throws FixedFormatException

Create an instance of the fixedFormatClass and load the data string into the object according to the annotations.

Parameters:

clazz - the class to instanciate

data - the data to load

Returns:

an object loaded with the fixedformat data

Throws:

FixedFormatException - in case the fixedFormatRecord class cannot be loaded

export

<T> java.lang.String export(T instance)
                        throws FixedFormatException

Throws:

FixedFormatException

export

<T> java.lang.String export(java.lang.String data,
                            T instance)
                        throws FixedFormatException

Throws:

FixedFormatException