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package org.springframework.ldap.core.support;
import org.springframework.ldap.core.ContextMapper;
import org.springframework.ldap.core.DirContextOperations;
/**
* Abstract superclass that may be used instead of implementing
* {@link ContextMapper} directly. Subclassing from this superclass, the
* supplied context will be automatically cast to
* DirContextOperations
. Note that if you use your own
* DirObjectFactory
, this implementation will fail with a
* ClassCastException
.
*
* @author Mattias Hellborg Arthursson
*
*/
public abstract class AbstractContextMapper implements ContextMapper {
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*
* @throws ClassCastException
* if a custom DirObjectFactory
implementation is
* used, causing the objects passed in be anything else than
* {@link DirContextOperations} instances.
*/
public final T mapFromContext(Object ctx) {
return doMapFromContext((DirContextOperations) ctx);
}
/**
* Map a single DirContextOperation
to an object. The
* supplied instance is the object supplied to
* {@link #mapFromContext(Object)} cast to a
* DirContextOperations
.
*
* @param ctx
* the context to map to an object.
* @return an object built from the data in the context.
*/
protected abstract T doMapFromContext(DirContextOperations ctx);
}