com.neulevel.epp.core
Class EppEntity

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.neulevel.epp.core.EppEntity

Direct Known Subclasses:

EppAddress, EppAuthInfo, EppCommand, EppContactData, EppContactType, EppCreds, EppCredsOptions, EppE164, EppGreeting, EppHello, EppIpAddress, EppObject, EppPeriod, EppResponse, EppResponseData, EppResult, EppResultMessage, EppServiceMenu, EppStatus, EppSvcsubParam, EppTransactionId, EppUnspec

public abstract class EppEntity

extends java.lang.Object

The EppEntity class is the base class for all entities/objects defined for EPP. All subclasses of EppEntity need to implement the following three methods:

• fromXML
• toXML
• toString

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2001/11/05 20:20:36 $

Author:

Ning Zhang ning.zhang@neustar.com

Constructor Summary

EppEntity()

Method Summary

static EppEntity	fromXML(org.w3c.dom.Node root) Converts an XML element into an EppEntity object.
abstract java.lang.String	toString()
protected java.lang.String	toString(java.lang.String tag) Converts the EppEntity object into plain XML text string
abstract org.w3c.dom.Element	toXML(org.w3c.dom.Document doc, java.lang.String tag) Converts the EppEntity object into an XML element

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EppEntity

public EppEntity()

Method Detail

fromXML

public static EppEntity fromXML(org.w3c.dom.Node root)

Converts an XML element into an EppEntity object. The caller of this method must make sure that the root node is of an EPP entity.

Parameters:

root - root node for an EppEntity object in XML format

Returns:

an EppEntity object, or null if the node is invalid

toXML

public abstract org.w3c.dom.Element toXML(org.w3c.dom.Document doc,
                                          java.lang.String tag)

Converts the EppEntity object into an XML element

Parameters:

doc - the XML Document object

tag - the tag/element name for the EppEntity object

Returns:

an Element object

toString

protected java.lang.String toString(java.lang.String tag)

Converts the EppEntity object into plain XML text string

Parameters:

tag - XML tag name for the root node

Returns:

a text string representing the EppEntity object in XML format

toString

public abstract java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object