| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 2007 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| * yyyymmdd bug Email and other contact information |
| * -------- -------- ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| * 20070413 176493 makandre@ca.ibm.com - Andrew Mak, WSE: Make message/transport stack pluggable |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.wst.ws.internal.explorer.transport; |
| |
| /** |
| * The ISerializer is responsible for taking an ISOAPMessage and serializing it |
| * into an XML string. |
| */ |
| public interface ISerializer { |
| |
| /** |
| * Serialize the ISOAPMessage into an XML string. The part parameter tells the method |
| * which part of the message (the envelope or the contents of the header or body) to |
| * serialize. Note that "contents" refers to the list of elements inside the header |
| * or body, and not the header or body element itself. |
| * |
| * @param part One of {@link ISOAPMessage#ENVELOPE}, {@link ISOAPMessage#HEADER_CONTENT}, or |
| * {@link ISOAPMessage#BODY_CONTENT}. |
| * @param message The ISOAPMessage to serialize. |
| * @return An XML string. |
| * @throws TransportException |
| */ |
| public String serialize(int part, ISOAPMessage message) throws TransportException; |
| } |
