/* Copyright 2003, 2004 Elliotte Rusty Harold
   
   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public 
   License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
   
   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the 
   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
   
   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
   License along with this library; if not, write to the 
   Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, 
   Boston, MA 02111-1307  USA
   
   You can contact Elliotte Rusty Harold by sending e-mail to
   elharo@metalab.unc.edu. Please include the word "XOM" in the
   subject line. The XOM home page is located at http://www.xom.nu/
*/

package nu.xom.samples;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import nu.xom.Document;
import nu.xom.Serializer;

/**
 * <p>
 *  A collection of static methods for serializing documents
 *  in one method call. 
 * </p>
 * 
 * @author Elliotte Rusty Harold
 * @version 1.0d23
 * 
 */
public class EZSerializer {

    
    /**
     * <p>
     * Serializes a document onto the output stream in UTF-8 with no 
     * pretty printing. The stream is flushed but not closed when this 
     * method completes.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @param doc the <code>Document</code> to serialize
     * @param out the <code>OutputStream</code> on which the document
     *     is written
     * 
     * @throws IOException if the underlying <code>OutputStream</code>
     *     encounters an I/O error
     * @throws NullPointerException if <code>doc</code> is null
     */
    public static void write(Document doc, OutputStream out) 
      throws IOException {
        Serializer serializer = new Serializer(out);
        serializer.write(doc);
        serializer.flush();
    }
    
    /**
     * <p>
     * Serializes a document onto the output stream in the specified 
     * encoding. White space is added to attempt to pretty print the
     * document, potentially changing the document's content.
     * Existing white space in the document may be trimmed or changed 
     * in the process. The stream is flushed but not closed when this 
     * method completes.
     * </p>
     * 
     * <p>
     *   The <code>indent</code> and <code>maxLength</code> arguments
     *   are suggestive, not prescriptive. XOM will attempt to honor
     *   them but cannot guarantee to do so. For instance, if an 
     *   element name is longer than the maximum line length, XOM
     *   cannot break the element name. It has to emit an 
     *   excessively long line.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @param doc the <code>Document</code> to serialize
     * @param out the <code>OutputStream</code> on which the document
     *     is written
     * @param encoding the character encoding in which to write 
     *     the document
     * @param indent the number of spaces to indent each successive
     *    level of the hierarchy
     * @param maxLength the maximum preferred number of characters per
     *    line
     * 
     * @throws IOException if the underlying <code>OutputStream</code>
     *     encounters an I/O error
     * @throws NullPointerException if <code>doc</code> is null
     */
    public static void write(Document doc, OutputStream out, String encoding,
      int indent, int maxLength) 
      throws IOException {
        Serializer serializer = new Serializer(out, encoding);
        serializer.setIndent(indent);
        serializer.setMaxLength(maxLength);
        serializer.write(doc);
        serializer.flush();
    }
    
}
