Serializable

Interface

namespace xdata {

    class Serializable 
    {
        public:
        
            virtual std::string type() const = 0;
        
            virtual void setValue (const Serializable& s);

            virtual int equals(const xdata::Serializable & s) = 0;
   };

You can retrieve the type of the xdata object through the type() function. If you want to use the value contained by the serializable you need to downcast it to the concrete type. Then you can get a hand on the value contained or convert it to a string. The code snippet demonstrating this has been taken from a callback of an InfoSpace event. The event contains the pointer of the modified xdata::Serializable value. To access it it needs to be downcasted.

void actionPerformed(xdata::Event & received ) {

    xdata::ItemEvent& e = dynamic_cast(received);
    xdata::Serializable* s = e.item();
    if (s->type() == "int")
    {
        xdata::Integer * i = dynamic_cast(s);
        std::cout << "value as integer: " << (int)*i  << std::endl;            
        std::cout << "value as string : " << i->toString() << std::endl;  
    }

Outlook

Future releases will contain an augmented interface to allow for more powerful manipulations.