Package adams.flow.transformer.appendarchive

Interface ArchiveObjectAppender

All Superinterfaces:

Destroyable, OptionHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractArchiveObjectAppender, BytesObjectAppender, SerializedObjectAppender, StringObjectAppender

public interface ArchiveObjectAppender
extends OptionHandler

Interface for classes that append objects to archives.

Author:

fracpete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	canProcess(Object obj)	Whether the appender can handle this particular object.
String	process(ArchiveManager manager, Object obj, String name)	Processes the given object.

Methods inherited from interface adams.core.Destroyable

destroy

Methods inherited from interface adams.core.option.OptionHandler

cleanUpOptions, defineOptions, getOptionManager, toCommandLine

Method Detail

canProcess

boolean canProcess(Object obj)

Whether the appender can handle this particular object.

Parameters:

obj - the object to check

Returns:

true if the object can be handled

process

String process(ArchiveManager manager,
               Object obj,
               String name)

Processes the given object.

Parameters:

manager - the context

obj - the object to process

name - the name to use in the archive

Returns:

null if successfully added, otherwise error message