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openlayers/lib/OpenLayers/Format.js
crschmidt 3948913bfc Merge all changes from the naturaldocs sandbox. This brings all the work that
has been done in the NaturalDocs branch back to trunk. Thanks to everyone who
helped out in making this happen. (I could list people, but the list would
be long, and I'm already mentally on vacation.)


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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. */
/**
* @requires OpenLayers/Util.js
*
* Class: OpenLayers.Format
* Base class for format reading/writing a variety of formats. Subclasses
* of OpenLayers.Format are expected to have read and write methods.
*/
OpenLayers.Format = OpenLayers.Class.create();
OpenLayers.Format.prototype = {
/**
* Constructor: OpenLayers.Format
* Instances of this class are not useful. See one of the subclasses.
*
* Parameters:
* options - {Object} An optional object with properties to set on the
* format
*
* Return:
* An instance of OpenLayers.Format
*/
initialize: function(options) {
OpenLayers.Util.extend(this, options);
},
/**
* Method: read
* Read data from a string, and return an object whose type depends on the
* subclass.
*
* Parameters:
* data - {string} Data to read/parse.
*
* Return:
* Depends on the subclass
*/
read: function(data) {
alert("Read not implemented.");
},
/**
* Method: write
* Accept an object, and return a string.
*
* Parameters:
* object - {Object} Object to be serialized
*
* Return:
* {String} A string representation of the object.
*/
write: function(object) {
alert("Write not implemented.");
},
/**
* Constant: CLASS_NAME
* {String} OpenLayers.Format
*/
CLASS_NAME: "OpenLayers.Format"
};