net.sf.morph.transform
Interface DecoratedCopier

All Superinterfaces:

net.sf.composite.Component, Copier, DecoratedTransformer, ExplicitTransformer, Transformer

All Known Implementing Classes:

ArrayCopier, AssemblerCopier, BasePropertyNameCopier, ChainedTransformer, CombiningCopier, ConditionalCopier, ContainerCopier, ContainerOfBeansCopier, CopierDecorator, CumulativeCopier, DefaultToBooleanConverter, DefaultToTextConverter, DisassemblerCopier, ImmutableComponentArrayCopier, MapCopier, NOPCopier, PropertyExpressionMappingCopier, PropertyNameMappingCopier, PropertyNameMatchingCopier, SetExpressionCopier, SimpleDelegatingTransformer, TextToContainerCopier, TypeChangingGraphTransformer

public interface DecoratedCopier
extends Copier, DecoratedTransformer

An extension of the Copier interface that defines a few more convenient methods. All methods specified in this interface can be easily implemented using just the methods in the Copier interface. Thus, if you are defining your own copier you should implement the only Copier interface. If you extend from net.sf.morph.transform.converters.BaseCopier, your copier will implement this inteface automatically. If you don't want to extend from BaseCopier, you can easily expose this interface by using the CopierDecorator.

You should not directly implement this interface, because additional methods may be introduced in later versions of Morph. Instead, implement the Copier interface and use the CopierDecorator to expose this interface.

Since:

Dec 5, 2004

Author:

Matt Sgarlata

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_CONVERT, TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_COPY

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_CONVERT, TRANSFORMATION_TYPE_COPY

Method Summary

void	copy(java.lang.Object destination, java.lang.Object source) Copies information from the given source to the given destination.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Copier

copy

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

getDestinationClasses, getSourceClasses

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.Transformer

getDestinationClasses, getSourceClasses

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.morph.transform.ExplicitTransformer

isTransformable

Method Detail

copy

void copy(java.lang.Object destination,
          java.lang.Object source)
          throws TransformationException

Copies information from the given source to the given destination.

Parameters:

destination - the object to which information is written

source - the object from which information is read

Throws:

TransformationException - if source or destination are null