PlainTextSerializer is used to read a text file into an
org.apache.pivot.wtk.text.Document, for use in a TextPane. It is intended to
parallel a hypothetical HTMLSerializer, which would read basic HTML into a
Document.
A StringSerializer class doesn't exist because we haven't had any use case for
one yet. Feel free to submit your code as a patch if you'd like to see it
included in the platform (this is an open source project, after all). :-)
G
On Nov 22, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Bill van Melle wrote:
> I noticed that one of the implementations of Serializer<T> is the curiously
> named PlainTextSerializer, which apparently returns a Document! I'm trying
> to imagine what that would be (I couldn't find any (ahem) documentation of
> Document other than the rather unhelpful javadoc), but meanwhile, what if I
> really did want to read a web result as plain text? Am I supposed to use
> ByteArraySerializer and then convert it to a String? Not particularly hard,
> I suppose -- in fact, it's trivial to write my own StringSerializer that uses
> ByteArraySerializer internally. I was just wondering why I should be the one
> to do that :).
>
>
> public class StringSerializer implements Serializer<String> {
>
> private String encoding = "UTF8";
>
> public StringSerializer() {
> }
>
> public StringSerializer(String encoding) {
> this.encoding = encoding;
> }
>
> @Override
> public String getMIMEType(String object) {
> return "text/plain";
> }
>
> @Override
> public String readObject(InputStream inputStream)
> throws IOException, SerializationException {
> byte[] bytes = new ByteArraySerializer().readObject(inputStream);
> return new String(bytes, encoding);
> }
>
> @Override
> public void writeObject(String object, OutputStream outputStream)
> throws IOException, SerializationException {
> byte[] bytes = object.getBytes(encoding);
> new ByteArraySerializer().writeObject(bytes, outputStream);
> }
>
> }
