org.jboss.remoting.marshal
Interface Marshaller

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

SerializableMarshaller (src)

public interface Marshaller

extends java.io.Serializable

Interface that all data marshallers must implements. Requires them to take Java data objects and convert primitive java data types (i.e. byte[]) and write to output provided.

Since the Marshaller is only responsible for doing the conversion to primitive type, does not make sense that would be supplied any type of object output to write to, as this implies that the object that it writes would be converted to bytes at some other point external to the marshaller.

write

public void write(java.lang.Object dataObject,
                  java.io.OutputStream output)
           throws java.io.IOException

Marshaller will need to take the dataObject and convert into primitive java data types and write to the given output.

Parameters:

dataObject - Object to be writen to output

output - The data output to write the object data to.

Throws:

java.io.IOException