com.sleepycat.bind.serial
Class StoredClassCatalog

java.lang.Object
  com.sleepycat.bind.serial.StoredClassCatalog

All Implemented Interfaces:

ClassCatalog

public class StoredClassCatalog
extends Object
implements ClassCatalog

A ClassCatalog that is stored in a Database.

A single StoredClassCatalog object is normally used along with a set of databases that stored serialized objects.

See Also:

Class Evolution

Constructor Summary

StoredClassCatalog(Database database)
Creates a catalog based on a given database.

Method Summary

void	close() Close a catalog database and release any cached resources.
ObjectStreamClass	getClassFormat(byte[] classID) Return the ObjectStreamClass for the given class ID.
byte[]	getClassID(ObjectStreamClass classFormat) Return the class ID for the current version of the given class description.
ClassLoader	getClassLoader() For BDB JE, returns the ClassLoader property of the catalog database environment.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

StoredClassCatalog

public StoredClassCatalog(Database database)
                   throws DatabaseException,
                          IllegalArgumentException

Creates a catalog based on a given database. To save resources, only a single catalog object should be used for each unique catalog database.

Parameters:

database - an open database to use as the class catalog. It must be a BTREE database and must not allow duplicates.

Throws:

DatabaseException - if an error occurs accessing the database.

IllegalArgumentException - if the database is not a BTREE database or if it configured to allow duplicates.

Method Detail

close

public void close()
           throws DatabaseException

Description copied from interface: ClassCatalog

Close a catalog database and release any cached resources.

Specified by:

close in interface ClassCatalog

Throws:

DatabaseException

getClassID

public byte[] getClassID(ObjectStreamClass classFormat)
                  throws DatabaseException,
                         ClassNotFoundException

Description copied from interface: ClassCatalog

Return the class ID for the current version of the given class description. This is used for storing in serialization streams in place of a full class descriptor, since it is much more compact. To get back the ObjectStreamClass for a class ID, call ClassCatalog.getClassFormat(byte[]). This function causes a new class ID to be assigned if the class description has changed.

Specified by:

getClassID in interface ClassCatalog

Parameters:

classFormat - The class description for which to return the class ID.

Returns:

The class ID for the current version of the class.

Throws:

DatabaseException

ClassNotFoundException

getClassFormat

public ObjectStreamClass getClassFormat(byte[] classID)
                                 throws DatabaseException,
                                        ClassNotFoundException

Description copied from interface: ClassCatalog

Return the ObjectStreamClass for the given class ID. This may or may not be the current class format, depending on whether the class has changed since the class ID was generated.

Specified by:

getClassFormat in interface ClassCatalog

Parameters:

classID - The class ID for which to return the class format.

Returns:

The class format for the given class ID, which may or may not represent the current version of the class.

Throws:

DatabaseException

ClassNotFoundException

getClassLoader

public ClassLoader getClassLoader()

For BDB JE, returns the ClassLoader property of the catalog database environment. This ensures that the Environment's ClassLoader property is used for loading all user-supplied classes.

For BDB, this method returns null because no Environment ClassLoader property is available. This method may be overridden to return a ClassLoader.

Specified by:

getClassLoader in interface ClassCatalog