Changeset 1553 for trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Persistence/3.3/Interfaces

Timestamp:

04/14/09 13:23:08 (15 years ago)

Author:

epitzer

Message:

Replace final fixes for broken parent references with separation of instance creation with meta information. (#548)

Location:

trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Persistence/3.3/Interfaces

Files:

• IDecomposer.cs (modified) (2 diffs)
• Tokens/MetaInfoBeginToken.cs (added)
• Tokens/MetaInfoEndToken.cs (added)

trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Persistence/3.3/Interfaces/IDecomposer.cs

@@ -22 +22 @@
 
     /// <summary>
+    /// Generate MetaInfo necessary for instance creation. (i.e.
+    /// array dimensions).
+    /// </summary>    
+    IEnumerable<Tag> CreateMetaInfo(object obj);
+
+    /// <summary>
     /// Decompose an object into KeyValuePairs, the Key can be null,
     /// the order in which elements are generated is guaranteed to be
-    /// the same as they are supplied in the Compose method.
+    /// the same as they will be supplied to the Populate method.
     /// </summary>    
     IEnumerable<Tag> Decompose(object obj);
 
     /// <summary>
-    /// Create an instance of the object if possible. May return null
-    /// in which case the Populate method must create the instance.
+    /// Create an instance of the object using the provided meta information.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="type"></param>
     /// <returns></returns>
-    object CreateInstance(Type type);
+    object CreateInstance(Type type, IEnumerable<Tag> metaInfo);
 
     /// <summary>
@@ -41 +46 @@
     /// the same as they where generated. Keys might be null.
     /// </summary>    
-    object Populate(object instance, IEnumerable<Tag> tags, Type type);
+    void Populate(object instance, IEnumerable<Tag> tags, Type type);
   }