com.bea.p13n.advisor
Interface AdviceTransform

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAdviceTransform

public interface AdviceTransform

extends AdvisletChainElement

This interface is the common interface for all advislet transforms. An AdviceTransform is the link between two Advislets in an advislet chain (as defined in the AdvisletRegistry). The AdviceTransform transforms the Advice results generated by one Advislet into the AdviceRequest entries required for the next.

Method Summary

void	transform(Advice input, AdviceRequest output) Transforms the given Advice that contains the input objects (may be null) into AdviceRequest to pass it to another Advisor in the advislet chain defined in the advislet registry.

Methods inherited from interface com.bea.p13n.advisor.AdvisletChainElement

getMetadata, initialize

Method Detail

transform

public void transform(Advice input,
                      AdviceRequest output)
               throws AdvisorException

Transforms the given Advice that contains the input objects (may be null) into AdviceRequest to pass it to another Advisor in the advislet chain defined in the advislet registry.

Parameters:

input - An Advice from which the parameters are extracted and transformed.

output - An AdviceRequest that is prepared from the given Advice.

Throws:

AdvisorException - If an error occurs during the transformation process.