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Interface Storable

All Known Subinterfaces:

OB, OBByte, OBDouble, OBFloat, OBInt, OBLong, OBShort

All Known Implementing Classes:

OBSlice, OBVectorByte, OBVectorDouble, OBVectorFloat, OBVectorInt, OBVectorLong, OBVectorShort

public interface Storable

Interface that abstracts the general storage and loading methods used to persist objects.

Since:

0.7

Author:

Arnoldo Jose Muller Molina

Method Summary

void	load(byte[] input) Populates the object's internal properties from the given byte stream.
byte[]	store() Stores this object in a byte array.

Method Detail

store

byte[] store()
             throws OBException,
                    IOException

Stores this object in a byte array.

Parameters:

out - A DataOutputStream where values can be stored

Throws:

OBException

IOException

Since:

0.0

load

void load(byte[] input)
          throws OBException,
                 IOException

Populates the object's internal properties from the given byte stream.

Parameters:

input - byte array from where we will load data.

Throws:

OBException - if the data cannot be loaded.

IOException

Since:

0.0