cvm.model.handlers.schema
Class NegotiationSchemaParser

java.lang.Object
  cvm.model.handlers.schema.NegotiationSchemaParser

public class NegotiationSchemaParser
extends java.lang.Object

This class is used to parse the negotiation schema. Negotiation schemas are nothing more than an encasulation around the control and data schemas.

Author:

Frank Hernandez, Raidel Batista, Eddie Incert

See Also:

NegotiationSchema, ControlSchema, DataSchema

Method Summary

static NegotiationSchemaParser	getInstance() Implementation of the singleton pattern.
com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream	getXStreamParser() This function initializes the XStream parser for parsing the NegotiationSchema/.
java.lang.String	parseSchemaToXML(NegotiationSchema schema) This function takes a data schema object and converts it into XML format.
NegotiationSchema	parseXMLToSchema(java.lang.String xmlString) This function parses an xml string in the format of a NegotiationSchema/ XML and creates a DataSchema object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getInstance

public static NegotiationSchemaParser getInstance()

Implementation of the singleton pattern.

Returns:

singleton instance

getXStreamParser

public com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream getXStreamParser()

This function initializes the XStream parser for parsing the NegotiationSchema/.

Returns:

XStream instance

See Also:

XStream

parseXMLToSchema

public NegotiationSchema parseXMLToSchema(java.lang.String xmlString)

This function parses an xml string in the format of a NegotiationSchema/ XML and creates a DataSchema object.

Parameters:

xmlString - negotiationSchema in XML

Returns:

DataSchema instance.

parseSchemaToXML

public java.lang.String parseSchemaToXML(NegotiationSchema schema)

This function takes a data schema object and converts it into XML format.

Parameters:

schema - NegotationSchema Object

Returns:

XML representation of the object.