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package org.apache.axis.encoding.ser;

import org.apache.axis.Constants;
import org.apache.axis.MessageContext;
import org.apache.axis.encoding.SerializationContext;
import org.apache.axis.encoding.Serializer;
import org.apache.axis.utils.Messages;
import org.apache.axis.wsdl.fromJava.Types;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Serializer for DOM elements
 *
 * @author Glen Daniels (gdaniels@apache.org)
 * Modified by @author Rich scheuerle <scheu@us.ibm.com>
 */

public class ElementSerializer implements Serializer {
    /**
     * Serialize a DOM Element
     */
    public void serialize(QName name, Attributes attributes,
                          Object value, SerializationContext context)
        throws IOException
    {
        if (!(value instanceof Element))
            throw new IOException(Messages.getMessage("cantSerialize01"));

        MessageContext mc = context.getMessageContext();
        context.setWriteXMLType(null);
        boolean writeWrapper = (mc == null) ||
                mc.isPropertyTrue("writeWrapperForElements", true);
        if (writeWrapper)
            context.startElement(name, attributes);
        context.writeDOMElement((Element)value);
        if (writeWrapper)
            context.endElement();
    }

    public String getMechanismType() { return Constants.AXIS_SAX; }

    /**
     * Return XML schema for the specified type, suitable for insertion into
     * the <types> element of a WSDL document, or underneath an
     * <element> or <attribute> declaration.
     *
     * @param javaType the Java Class we're writing out schema for
     * @param types the Java2WSDL Types object which holds the context
     *              for the WSDL being generated.
     * @return a type element containing a schema simpleType/complexType
     * @see org.apache.axis.wsdl.fromJava.Types
     */
    public Element writeSchema(Class javaType, Types types) throws Exception {
        return null;
    }
}