Serializes a business object into a byte array.
Syntax
abstract byte[] getByteArrayFromBO(BusinessObjectInterface theBusObj, Object config);
Parameters
Return values
A byte array containing serialized data that represents the specified business object.
Exceptions
Notes
The getByteArrayFromBO() method performs business-object-to-byte
conversion for a data handler. It converts the data in the theBusObj business object into a byte array (a Java byte[] object).
If you need to provide your data handler with more configuration information than is included in the meta-object, you can use the config option to pass in an object that contains this information. For example, config could be a template file or a string to a URL for a schema that is used to build an XML document from a business object.
If config is a business object type, you can implement the getByteArrayFromBO() method to call setupOptions(config). The setupOptions() method is defined in the DataHandler base class. This method uses the attribute names in the business object as property names and the default values as the values for those properties. It sets the values of the configuration properties in the object for use by the data handler.
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