org.apache.marmotta.ldpath.api.transformers

Interface NodeTransformer<T,Node>

All Known Implementing Classes:

BigDecimalTransformer, BigIntegerTransformer, BooleanTransformer, ByteTransformer, DateTimeTransformer, DateTransformer, DoubleTransformer, DurationTransformer, FloatTransformer, IdentityTransformer, IntTransformer, LongTransformer, ShortTransformer, StringTransformer, TimeTransformer

public interface NodeTransformer<T,Node>

Implementations of this interface allow to transform KiWiNode objects into the type T. This is currently required by the indexer to map KiWiNodes to the Java types corresponding to the respective XML Schema datatypes.

Author: Sebastian Schaffert

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
T	transform(RDFBackend<Node> backend, Node node, Map<String,String> configuration) Transform the KiWiNode node into the datatype T.

Method Detail

transform

T transform(RDFBackend<Node> backend,
          Node node,
          Map<String,String> configuration)
            throws IllegalArgumentException

Transform the KiWiNode node into the datatype T. In case the node cannot be transformed to the respective datatype, throws an IllegalArgumentException that needs to be caught by the class carrying out the transformation.

Parameters:

backend -

node -

configuration - the field configuration used when defining the LDPath rule

Returns:

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException