Package net.sf.saxon.s9api

Class XdmExternalObject

java.lang.Object

net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmValue

net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmItem

net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmExternalObject

All Implemented Interfaces:

Iterable<XdmItem>

public class XdmExternalObject
extends XdmItem

The class XdmExternalObject represents an XDM item that wraps an external (Java or .NET) object. As such, it is outside the scope of the XDM specification (but permitted as an extension).

In releases prior to 9.5, external objects in Saxon were represented as atomic values. From 9.5 they are represented as a fourth kind of item, alongside nodes, atomic values, and functions.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
XdmExternalObject(Object value)	Create an XdmExternalObject that wraps a supplied Java object

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	equals(Object other)	Compare two external objects for equality.
Object	getExternalObject()	Get the wrapped Java object
int	hashCode()	Return a hash code for the object.
String	toString()	Get the result of converting the external value to a string.

Methods inherited from class net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmItem

asMap, getStringValue, getUnderlyingValue, getUnicodeStringValue, isAtomicValue, isNode, matches, size, stream, wrapItem, wrapItem, wrapItem

Methods inherited from class net.sf.saxon.s9api.XdmValue

append, documentOrder, isEmpty, itemAt, iterator, makeSequence, makeValue, matches, select, subsequence, where, wrap, wrap

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Iterable

forEach, spliterator

Constructor Details

XdmExternalObject

public XdmExternalObject(Object value)

Create an XdmExternalObject that wraps a supplied Java object

Parameters:

value - the supplied Java object. Must not be null.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if the supplied value is null.

Method Details

getExternalObject

public Object getExternalObject()

Get the wrapped Java object

Returns:

the wrapped object

toString

public String toString()

Get the result of converting the external value to a string.

Overrides:

toString in class XdmValue

Returns:

the result of applying toString() to the wrapped external object.

equals

public boolean equals(Object other)

Compare two external objects for equality. Two instances of XdmExternalObject are equal if the Java objects that they wrap are equal.

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

other - the object to be compared

Returns:

true if the other object is an XdmExternalObject and the two wrapped objects are equal under the equals() method.

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Return a hash code for the object. This respects the semantics of equals(Object);

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

a suitable hash code