PrimitiveCodec.java

package org.json.simple.serialization.primitives;
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import org.json.simple.parser.BufferedJSONStreamReader;
import org.json.simple.parser.ParseException;
import org.json.simple.serialization.Codec;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;


/**
 * A primitive codec can mashall a single value to a single string and vice verse.
 *
 * @author karl.wettin@kodapan.se
 * @since 2009-jul-03 14:32:49
 */
public abstract class PrimitiveCodec<T> extends Codec<T> {

  /**
   * Appends the JSON value for a given object to a StringBuffer.
   * Output should include JSON synxtax such as "", ["",""], { ... }, etc
   *
   * @param object
   * @param definedType
   * @param json
   * @param path
   * @param indentation
   */
  public void marshal(T object, Class definedType, PrintWriter json, String path, int indentation) {
    json.append("\"");
    json.append(marshal(object));
    json.append("\"");
  }

  @Override
  public T unmarshal(BufferedJSONStreamReader jsr) throws ParseException, IOException {
    jsr.next();
    return unmarshal(jsr.getStringValue());
  }

  @Override
  public abstract String marshal(T attributeValue);

  @Override
  public abstract T unmarshal(String stringValue);

}