deps/XenServerJava/com/xensource/xenapi/Marshalling.java

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package com.xensource.xenapi;

import java.util.*;

/**
 * Marshalls Java types onto the wire.
 * Does not cope with records.  Use individual record.toMap()
 */
public final class Marshalling {
    /**
     * Converts Integers to Strings
     * and Sets to Lists recursively.
     */
    public static Object toXMLRPC(Object o) {
        if (o instanceof String ||
            o instanceof Boolean ||
            o instanceof Double ||
            o instanceof Date) {
            return o;
	} else if (o instanceof Long) {
	    return o.toString();
        } else if (o instanceof Map) {
            Map<Object, Object> result = new HashMap<Object, Object>();
            Map m = (Map)o;
            for (Object k : m.keySet())
            {
                result.put(toXMLRPC(k), toXMLRPC(m.get(k)));
            }
            return result;
        } else if (o instanceof Set) {
            List<Object> result = new ArrayList<Object>();
            for (Object e : ((Set)o))
            {
                result.add(toXMLRPC(e));
            }
            return result;
	} else if (o instanceof XenAPIObject) {
	    return ((XenAPIObject) o).toWireString();
	} else if (o instanceof Enum) {
	    return o.toString();
	}else if (o == null){
	    return "";
        } else {
		throw new RuntimeException ("=============don't know how to marshall:({[" + o + "]})");
        }
    }
}