Package org.opensaml.core.xml.io

Interface Marshaller

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractElementExtensibleXMLObjectMarshaller, AbstractExtensibleXMLObjectMarshaller, AbstractXMLObjectMarshaller, XSAnyMarshaller, XSBase64BinaryMarshaller, XSBooleanMarshaller, XSDateTimeMarshaller, XSIntegerMarshaller, XSQNameMarshaller, XSStringMarshaller, XSURIMarshaller

public interface Marshaller

Marshallers are used to marshall a XMLObject into a W3C DOM element.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Element	marshall(XMLObject xmlObject)	Marshall this element, and its children, and root them in a newly created Document.
Element	marshall(XMLObject xmlObject, Document document)	Marshall this element, and its children, into a W3C DOM element.
Element	marshall(XMLObject xmlObject, Element parentElement)	Marshall the given XMLObject and append it as a child to the given parent element.

Method Detail

marshall

@Nonnull
Element marshall(@Nonnull
                 XMLObject xmlObject)
          throws MarshallingException

Marshall this element, and its children, and root them in a newly created Document. The Document is created by a DocumentBuilder obtained from a DocumentBuilderFactory created without any additional parameters or properties set; that is the system defaults properties are used.

Parameters:

xmlObject - the object to marshall

Returns:

the W3C DOM element representing this SAML element

Throws:

MarshallingException - thrown if there is a problem marshalling the given object

marshall

@Nonnull
Element marshall(@Nonnull
                 XMLObject xmlObject,
                 @Nonnull
                 Document document)
          throws MarshallingException

Marshall this element, and its children, into a W3C DOM element. If the document does not have a Document Element the Element resulting from this marshalling will be set as the Document Element.

Parameters:

xmlObject - the object to marshall

document - the DOM document the marshalled element will be placed in

Returns:

the W3C DOM element representing this XMLObject

Throws:

MarshallingException - thrown if there is a problem marshalling the given object

marshall

@Nonnull
Element marshall(@Nonnull
                 XMLObject xmlObject,
                 @Nonnull
                 Element parentElement)
          throws MarshallingException

Marshall the given XMLObject and append it as a child to the given parent element. NOTE: The given Element must be within a DOM tree whose root is the root of the Document owning the given Element.

Parameters:

xmlObject - the XMLObject to be marshalled

parentElement - the parent of the Element resulting from marshalling the given XMLObject

Returns:

the marshalled XMLObject

Throws:

MarshallingException - thrown if the given XMLObject can not be marshalled.