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package org.apache.qpid.management.wsdm.muse.serializer;

import java.util.Date;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

import org.apache.muse.core.serializer.Serializer;
import org.apache.muse.util.xml.XmlUtils;
import org.apache.muse.ws.addressing.soap.SoapFault;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

/**
 * Implementation of Muse Serializer for Date type.
 * Note that Muse already ships a serializer but the formatter used on that class 
 * is losing precision betweem marshal / unmarshal operations.
 *  
 * @author Andrea Gazzarini
 */
public class DateSerializer implements Serializer 
{	
	/**
	 * Return a Date representation of the given xml element.
	 * 
	 * @param xml the element to unmarshal.
	 * @throws SoapFault when the unmarshalling fails.
	 */	
	public Object fromXML(Element elementData) throws SoapFault 
	{
		return new Date(Long.parseLong(elementData.getTextContent()));
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the java type associated to this class.
	 * 
	 * @return the java type associated to this class.
	 */
	public Class<?> getSerializableType() 
	{
		return Date.class;
	}

	/**
	 * Return an xml representation of the given UUID with the given name.
	 * 
	 * @param object the UUID to marshal.
	 * @param qname the qualified (xml) name of the object to use in xml representation.
	 * @return the xml representation of the UUID.
	 * @throws SoapFault when the marshalling fails.
	 */
	public Element toXML(Object obj, QName qname) throws SoapFault 
	{
		Date date = (Date) obj;
		return XmlUtils.createElement(qname, String.valueOf(date.getTime()));
	}
}