com.ldodds.foaf.thinlet.save
Interface Exporter

All Known Implementing Classes:

RDFExporter, NotationThreeExporter

public interface Exporter

An object capable of exporting FOAF objects into a provided Outputstream

This code is Public Domain

Author:

ccslrd

Method Summary

void	end() Indicates the end of an export process, allowing the exporter to write any final data to the output.
void	export(Document d) Exports a document
void	export(Literal l) Exports a literal
void	export(Person p) Exports a person
void	export(Resource r) Exports a resource
void	setOut(java.io.OutputStream out) Set the stream into which objects should be exported.
void	start() Indicates the start of an export process, allowing the exporter to write any initial data to the output (e.g.

Method Detail

setOut

public void setOut(java.io.OutputStream out)

Set the stream into which objects should be exported.

Provides the exporter with an OutputStream into which it should store the Exportable objects its asked to save.

An OutputStream is used rather than a Writer because the output format may be binary. However the Exporter is free to wrap this stream in a Writer for character based output, and equally may decide to add buffering for efficiency.

Parameters:

out - the outputstream

export

public void export(Person p)
            throws java.io.IOException

Exports a person

export

public void export(Document d)
            throws java.io.IOException

Exports a document

export

public void export(Resource r)
            throws java.io.IOException

Exports a resource

export

public void export(Literal l)
            throws java.io.IOException

Exports a literal

start

public void start()
           throws java.io.IOException

Indicates the start of an export process, allowing the exporter to write any initial data to the output (e.g. root element of an XML document)

end

public void end()
         throws java.io.IOException

Indicates the end of an export process, allowing the exporter to write any final data to the output.