/* * Copyright (C) 2006 The Android Open Source Project * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package android.os; /** * Interface for classes whose instances can be written to * and restored from a {@link Parcel}. Classes implementing the Parcelable * interface must also have a static field called CREATOR, which * is an object implementing the {@link Parcelable.Creator Parcelable.Creator} * interface. * *

A typical implementation of Parcelable is:

* *
 * public class MyParcelable implements Parcelable {
 *     private int mData;
 *
 *     public int describeContents() {
 *         return 0;
 *     }
 *
 *     public void writeToParcel(Parcel out, int flags) {
 *         out.writeInt(mData);
 *     }
 *
 *     public static final Parcelable.Creator<MyParcelable> CREATOR
 *             = new Parcelable.Creator<MyParcelable>() {
 *         public MyParcelable createFromParcel(Parcel in) {
 *             return new MyParcelable(in);
 *         }
 *
 *         public MyParcelable[] newArray(int size) {
 *             return new MyParcelable[size];
 *         }
 *     };
 *     
 *     private MyParcelable(Parcel in) {
 *         mData = in.readInt();
 *     }
 * }
*/ public interface Parcelable { /** * Flag for use with {@link #writeToParcel}: the object being written * is a return value, that is the result of a function such as * "Parcelable someFunction()", * "void someFunction(out Parcelable)", or * "void someFunction(inout Parcelable)". Some implementations * may want to release resources at this point. */ public static final int PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE = 0x0001; /** * Bit masks for use with {@link #describeContents}: each bit represents a * kind of object considered to have potential special significance when * marshalled. */ public static final int CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR = 0x0001; /** * Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable's * marshalled representation. * * @return a bitmask indicating the set of special object types marshalled * by the Parcelable. */ public int describeContents(); /** * Flatten this object in to a Parcel. * * @param dest The Parcel in which the object should be written. * @param flags Additional flags about how the object should be written. * May be 0 or {@link #PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE}. */ public void writeToParcel(Parcel dest, int flags); /** * Interface that must be implemented and provided as a public CREATOR * field that generates instances of your Parcelable class from a Parcel. */ public interface Creator { /** * Create a new instance of the Parcelable class, instantiating it * from the given Parcel whose data had previously been written by * {@link Parcelable#writeToParcel Parcelable.writeToParcel()}. * * @param source The Parcel to read the object's data from. * @return Returns a new instance of the Parcelable class. */ public T createFromParcel(Parcel source); /** * Create a new array of the Parcelable class. * * @param size Size of the array. * @return Returns an array of the Parcelable class, with every entry * initialized to null. */ public T[] newArray(int size); } }