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Class TupleBinding</H2>
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<DT><B>All Implemented Interfaces:</B> <DD><A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/DataBinding.html" title="interface in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind">DataBinding</A></DD>
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<DT><PRE>public abstract class <B>TupleBinding</B><DT>extends java.lang.Object<DT>implements <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/DataBinding.html" title="interface in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind">DataBinding</A></DL>
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An abstract tuple binding for tuple keys or values. This class takes care of
converting the data to/from <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleInput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple"><CODE>TupleInput</CODE></A> and <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleOutput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple"><CODE>TupleOutput</CODE></A>
objects. Its two abstract methods must be implemented by a concrete
subclass to convert between tuples and key or value objects.
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<li> <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleBinding.html#dataToObject(com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple.TupleInput)"><CODE>dataToObject(TupleInput)</CODE></A> </li>
<li> <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleBinding.html#objectToData(java.lang.Object, com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple.TupleOutput)"><CODE>objectToData(Object,TupleOutput)</CODE></A> </li>
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<p>For keys or values which are Java primitive classes (String, Integer,
etc) <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleBinding.html#getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class, com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple.TupleFormat)"><CODE>getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class, com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple.TupleFormat)</CODE></A> may be used to return a builtin tuple
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<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleBinding.html#TupleBinding(com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple.TupleFormat)">TupleBinding</A></B>(<A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleFormat.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple">TupleFormat</A> format)</CODE>
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Creates a tuple binding.</TD>
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<CODE> java.lang.Object</CODE></FONT></TD>
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Constructs a key or value object from <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleInput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple"><CODE>TupleInput</CODE></A> data.</TD>
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Returns the format used for the data of this binding.</TD>
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<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleBinding.html#getPrimitiveBinding(java.lang.Class, com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple.TupleFormat)">getPrimitiveBinding</A></B>(java.lang.Class cls,
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Creates a tuple binding for a primitive Java class.</TD>
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Converts an Object into a data buffer.</TD>
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Converts a key or value object to a tuple data.</TD>
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format</H3>
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TupleBinding</H3>
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public <B>TupleBinding</B>(<A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleFormat.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple">TupleFormat</A> format)</PRE>
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dataToObject</H3>
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public java.lang.Object <B>dataToObject</B>(<A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/DataBuffer.html" title="interface in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind">DataBuffer</A> data)
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objectToData</H3>
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>object</CODE> - is the source Object.<DD><CODE>data</CODE> - is the destination data buffer.
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<DD><CODE>java.io.IOException</CODE></DL>
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getDataFormat</H3>
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public <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/DataFormat.html" title="interface in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind">DataFormat</A> <B>getDataFormat</B>()</PRE>
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dataToObject</H3>
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public abstract java.lang.Object <B>dataToObject</B>(<A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleInput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple">TupleInput</A> input)
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<DD>Constructs a key or value object from <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleInput.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple"><CODE>TupleInput</CODE></A> data.
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>input</CODE> - is the tuple key or value data.
<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>the key or value object constructed from the data.
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public abstract void <B>objectToData</B>(java.lang.Object object,
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>object</CODE> - is the key or value object.<DD><CODE>output</CODE> - is the tuple data to which the key or value should be
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getPrimitiveBinding</H3>
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public static <A HREF="../../../../../com/sleepycat/bdb/bind/tuple/TupleBinding.html" title="class in com.sleepycat.bdb.bind.tuple">TupleBinding</A> <B>getPrimitiveBinding</B>(java.lang.Class cls,
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