org.figure8.join.services.properties
Interface PropertiesExtractor

All Known Implementing Classes:

AssemblyPropertiesExtractor, BuildPropertiesExtractor, ComponentPropertiesExtractor, DefaultPropertiesExtractor, DeliverablePropertiesExtractor, DeploymentPropertiesExtractor, PhysicalEnvironmentPropertiesExtractor

public interface PropertiesExtractor

This is a service interface defining a general purpose object converter that extract from object (and its inner fields graph) a set of properties.
Use an extractor to flatten objects for using them, for example, as environment variables of a runtime evaluated script.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Author:

Laurent Broudoux

Method Summary

java.util.Properties

extract(java.lang.Object obj) Extract a set of properties from the given object.

Method Detail

extract

java.util.Properties extract(java.lang.Object obj)
                             throws InvalidParameterException

Extract a set of properties from the given object.

Parameters:

obj - The object to extract properties from

Returns:

A set of properties representing the object and its inner fields graph

Throws:

InvalidParameterException - if the object cannot be processed by implementation