com.google.web.bindery.requestfactory.shared

Interface ProxySerializer

public interface ProxySerializer

Serializes graphs of EntityProxy objects. A ProxySerializer is associated with an instance of a ProxyStore when it is created via RequestFactory.getSerializer(ProxyStore).

The EntityProxy.stableId() of non-persisted (i.e. newly created) EntityProxy instances are not stable.

To create a self-contained message that encapsulates a proxy:

 RequestFactory myFactory = ...;
 MyFooProxy someProxy = ...;
 
 DefaultProxyStore store = new DefaultProxyStore();
 ProxySerializer ser = myFactory.getSerializer(store);
 // More than one proxy could be serialized
 String key = ser.serialize(someProxy);
 // Create the flattened representation
 String payload = store.encode();
 

To recreate the object:

 ProxyStore store = new DefaultProxyStore(payload);
 ProxySerializer ser = myFactory.getSerializer(store);
 MyFooProxy someProxy = ser.deserialize(MyFooProxy.class, key);
 

If two objects refer to different EntityProxy instances that have the same stableId(), the last mutable proxy encountered will be preferred, otherwise the first immutable proxy will be used.

See Also:

DefaultProxyStore

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
<T extends BaseProxy> T	deserialize(Class<T> proxyType, String key) Recreate a proxy instance that was previously passed to serialize(BaseProxy).
<T extends EntityProxy> T	deserialize(EntityProxyId<T> id) Recreate a EntityProxy instance that was previously passed to serialize(BaseProxy).
String	serialize(BaseProxy proxy) Store a proxy into the backing store.

Method Detail

deserialize

<T extends BaseProxy> T deserialize(Class<T> proxyType,
                                    String key)

Recreate a proxy instance that was previously passed to serialize(BaseProxy).

Type Parameters:

T - the type of proxy object to create

Parameters:

proxyType - the type of proxy object to create

key - a value previously returned from serialize(BaseProxy)

Returns:

a new, immutable instance of the proxy or null if the data needed to deserialize the proxy is not present in the ProxyStore

deserialize

<T extends EntityProxy> T deserialize(EntityProxyId<T> id)

Recreate a EntityProxy instance that was previously passed to serialize(BaseProxy).

Type Parameters:

T - the type of proxy object to create

Parameters:

id - the EntityProxyId of the desired entity

Returns:

a new, immutable instance of the proxy or null if the data needed to deserialize the proxy is not present in the ProxyStore

serialize

String serialize(BaseProxy proxy)

Store a proxy into the backing store.

Parameters:

proxy - the proxy to store

Returns:

a key value that can be passed to deserialize(Class, String)