Merge vector-2.4 branch back to trunk.

svn merge sandbox/vector-2.4/@2307 sandbox/vector-2.4/@HEAD trunk/openlayers/


git-svn-id: http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers@2803 dc9f47b5-9b13-0410-9fdd-eb0c1a62fdaf

lib/OpenLayers/Format.js

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+/* Copyright (c) 2006 MetaCarta, Inc., published under a modified BSD license.
+ * See http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/repository-license.txt 
+ * for the full text of the license. */
+
+/**
+ * Base class for format reading/writing. 
+ * @requires OpenLayers/Util.js
+ */
+OpenLayers.Format = OpenLayers.Class.create();
+OpenLayers.Format.prototype = {
+    
+    initialize: function(options) {
+        OpenLayers.Util.extend(this, options);
+    },
+
+    /**
+     * Read data from a string, and return a list of features. 
+     * 
+     * @param {string} data data to read/parse.
+     */
+     read: function(data) {
+         alert("Read not implemented.");
+     },
+    
+    /**
+     * Accept Feature Collection, and return a string. 
+     * 
+     * @param {Array} List of features to serialize into a string.
+     */
+     write: function(features) {
+         alert("Write not implemented.");
+     }
+};