org.treetank.io.bytepipe

Interface IByteHandler

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable

All Known Subinterfaces:

IByteHandler.IByteHandlerPipeline

All Known Implementing Classes:

ByteHandlerPipeline, Encryptor, Zipper

public interface IByteHandler
extends Cloneable

Interface for the decorator, representing any byte representation to be serialized or to serialize.

Author:

Sebastian Graf, University of Konstanz

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static interface	IByteHandler.IByteHandlerPipeline Concartenating interface for offering dedicated access to ByteHandlerPipeline for injections.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
IByteHandler	clone() Defining the cloning operation
InputStream	deserialize(InputStream pToDeserialize) Method to deserialize any byte-chunk.
OutputStream	serialize(OutputStream pToSerialize) Method to serialize any byte-chunk.

Method Detail

serialize

OutputStream serialize(OutputStream pToSerialize)
                       throws TTByteHandleException

Method to serialize any byte-chunk.

Parameters:

pToSerialize - byte to be serialized

Returns:

outputstream from the pipeline

Throws:

TTByteHandleException - to be capsulated.

deserialize

InputStream deserialize(InputStream pToDeserialize)
                        throws TTByteHandleException

Method to deserialize any byte-chunk.

Parameters:

pToDeserialize - to deserialize

Returns:

the inputstream from the pipeline

Throws:

TTByteHandleException - to be capsulated.

clone

IByteHandler clone()

Defining the cloning operation

Returns:

a clone of the current IByteHandler-instance.