1 /*
2 * Copyright 2004 the original author or authors.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package com.ancientprogramming.fixedformat4j.format;
17
18 import com.ancientprogramming.fixedformat4j.exception.FixedFormatException;
19
20 /**
21 * Interface used to interact with fixed format annotations.
22 *
23 * A <code>FixedFormatManager</code> is associated with one type of fixed format data.
24 * @author Jacob von Eyben - http://www.ancientprogramming.com
25 * @since 1.0.0
26 */
27 public interface FixedFormatManager {
28
29 /**
30 * Create an instance of the fixedFormatClass and load the data string into the object according to the annotations.
31 * @param clazz the class to instanciate
32 * @param data the data to load
33 * @return an object loaded with the fixedformat data
34 * @throws FixedFormatException in case the fixedFormatRecord class cannot be loaded
35 */
36 <T> T load(Class<T> clazz, String data) throws FixedFormatException;
37
38 <T> String export(T instance) throws FixedFormatException;
39
40 <T> String export(String data, T instance) throws FixedFormatException;
41
42
43 }