com.sleepycat.bind.tuple
Class TupleBinding

java.lang.Object
  com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleBase
      com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleBinding

All Implemented Interfaces:

EntryBinding

Direct Known Subclasses:

BooleanBinding, ByteBinding, CharacterBinding, DoubleBinding, FloatBinding, IntegerBinding, LongBinding, ShortBinding, SortedDoubleBinding, SortedFloatBinding, StringBinding, TupleMarshalledBinding

public abstract class TupleBinding
extends TupleBase
implements EntryBinding

An abstract EntryBinding that treats a key or data entry as a tuple; it includes predefined bindings for Java primitive types.

This class takes care of converting the entries to/from TupleInput and TupleOutput objects. Its two abstract methods must be implemented by a concrete subclass to convert between tuples and key or data objects.

• entryToObject(TupleInput)
• objectToEntry(Object,TupleOutput)

For key or data entries which are Java primitive classes (String, Integer, etc) getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class) may be used to return a builtin tuple binding. A custom tuple binding for these types is not needed. Note: getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class) returns bindings that do not sort negative floating point numbers correctly by default. See SortedFloatBinding and SortedDoubleBinding for details.

When a tuple binding is used as a key binding, it produces key values with a reasonable default sort order. For more information on the default sort order, see TupleOutput.

Constructor Summary

TupleBinding()
Creates a tuple binding.

Method Summary

Object	entryToObject(DatabaseEntry entry) Converts a entry buffer into an Object.
abstract Object	entryToObject(TupleInput input) Constructs a key or data object from a TupleInput entry.
static TupleBinding	getPrimitiveBinding(Class cls) Creates a tuple binding for a primitive Java class.
void	objectToEntry(Object object, DatabaseEntry entry) Converts an Object into a entry buffer.
abstract void	objectToEntry(Object object, TupleOutput output) Converts a key or data object to a tuple entry.

Methods inherited from class com.sleepycat.bind.tuple.TupleBase

entryToInput, getTupleBufferSize, getTupleOutput, inputToEntry, newOutput, newOutput, outputToEntry, setTupleBufferSize

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TupleBinding

public TupleBinding()

Creates a tuple binding.

Method Detail

entryToObject

public Object entryToObject(DatabaseEntry entry)

Description copied from interface: EntryBinding

Converts a entry buffer into an Object.

Specified by:

entryToObject in interface EntryBinding

Parameters:

entry - is the source entry buffer.

Returns:

the resulting Object.

objectToEntry

public void objectToEntry(Object object,
                          DatabaseEntry entry)

Description copied from interface: EntryBinding

Converts an Object into a entry buffer.

Specified by:

objectToEntry in interface EntryBinding

Parameters:

object - is the source Object.

entry - is the destination entry buffer.

entryToObject

public abstract Object entryToObject(TupleInput input)

Constructs a key or data object from a TupleInput entry.

Parameters:

input - is the tuple key or data entry.

Returns:

the key or data object constructed from the entry.

objectToEntry

public abstract void objectToEntry(Object object,
                                   TupleOutput output)

Converts a key or data object to a tuple entry.

Parameters:

object - is the key or data object.

output - is the tuple entry to which the key or data should be written.

getPrimitiveBinding

public static TupleBinding getPrimitiveBinding(Class cls)

Creates a tuple binding for a primitive Java class. The following Java classes are supported.

• String
• Character
• Boolean
• Byte
• Short
• Integer
• Long
• Float
• Double

Note: getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class) returns bindings that do not sort negative floating point numbers correctly by default. See SortedFloatBinding and SortedDoubleBinding for details.

Parameters:

cls - is the primitive Java class.

Returns:

a new binding for the primitive class or null if the cls parameter is not one of the supported classes.