Package net.shibboleth.metadata

Interface ItemCollectionSerializer<T>

Type Parameters:

T - type of data contained in each item

All Known Implementing Classes:

DiscoFeedCollectionSerializer, DOMElementSerializer, SimpleItemCollectionSerializer

public interface ItemCollectionSerializer<T>

Item collection serializers convert a Collection of Items into an octet stream.

The caller is responsible for managing (opening, closing, etc.) the output stream.

All implementations of this interface must be thread-safe.

Since:

0.9.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	serializeCollection(Collection<Item<T>> items, OutputStream output)	Serializes the collection of Items to the given output stream.

Method Details

serializeCollection

void serializeCollection(@Nonnull @NonnullElements
 Collection<Item<T>> items,
 @Nonnull
 OutputStream output)
                  throws IOException

Serializes the collection of Items to the given output stream.

Parameters:

items - Collection of Items to be serialized

output - output stream to which the serialized form of the Item collection will be written

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O exception occurs during serialization