org.jboss.marshalling
Class ChainingClassTable

java.lang.Object
  org.jboss.marshalling.ChainingClassTable

All Implemented Interfaces:

ClassTable

public class ChainingClassTable
extends Object
implements ClassTable

A class table that multiplexes up to 256 class tables. The protocol works by prepending the custom class table with an identifier byte.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.jboss.marshalling.ClassTable

ClassTable.Writer

Constructor Summary

ChainingClassTable(ClassTable[] classTables)
Construct a new instance.

Method Summary

ClassTable.Writer	getClassWriter(Class<?> clazz) Determine whether the given class reference is a valid predefined reference.
Class<?>	readClass(Unmarshaller unmarshaller) Read a class from the stream.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ChainingClassTable

public ChainingClassTable(ClassTable[] classTables)

Construct a new instance. The given array may be sparse, but it may not be more than 256 elements in length. Class tables are checked in order of increasing array index.

Parameters:

classTables - the class tables to delegate to

Method Detail

getClassWriter

public ClassTable.Writer getClassWriter(Class<?> clazz)
                                 throws IOException

Determine whether the given class reference is a valid predefined reference.

Specified by:

getClassWriter in interface ClassTable

Parameters:

clazz - the candidate class

Returns:

the class writer, or null to use the default mechanism

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

readClass

public Class<?> readClass(Unmarshaller unmarshaller)
                   throws IOException,
                          ClassNotFoundException

Read a class from the stream. The class will have been written by the ClassTable.getClassWriter(Class) method's Writer instance, as defined above.

Specified by:

readClass in interface ClassTable

Parameters:

unmarshaller - the unmarshaller to read from

Returns:

the class

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs

ClassNotFoundException - if a class could not be found