Serializes a business object into an InputStream object.
Syntax
abstract InputStream getStreamFromBO(BusinessObjectInterface theBusObj, Object config);
Parameters
Return values
An InputStream object containing serialized data representing a business object.
Exceptions
Notes
The getStreamFromBO() method performs business-object-to-stream conversion for a data handler. It converts the data in the theBusObj business object into a stream (a Java InputStream 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 getStreamFromBO() 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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