ModelContentConverter (Activiti Cloud Services :: Modeling API 7.8.0 API)

public interface ModelContentConverter<T extends ModelContent>

Model content converter interface

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`byte[]`	`convertToBytes(T modelContent)`	Convert an instance of the model content to bytes array
`Optional<T>`	`convertToModelContent(byte[] bytes)`	Convert a bytes array to the handled model content entity.
`ModelType`	`getHandledModelType()`	Get handled model type by this converter.
`default FileContent`	`overrideModelId(FileContent fileContent, Map<String,String> modelIdentifiers)`	Converts the file content to the handled model content entity, sets the given id, and converts back to a FileContent.

- Method Detail
  - getHandledModelType
```
ModelType getHandledModelType()
```
    Get handled model type by this converter.
    
    Returns:
    
    handled model type
  - convertToModelContent
```
Optional<T> convertToModelContent(byte[] bytes)
```
    Convert a bytes array to the handled model content entity.
    
    Parameters:
    
    bytes - the bytes to convert
    
    Returns:
    
    the model content, or Optional.empty()
  - convertToBytes
```
byte[] convertToBytes(T modelContent)
```
    Convert an instance of the model content to bytes array
    
    Parameters:
    
    modelContent - the model content instance to convert
    
    Returns:
    
    the bytes array
  - overrideModelId
```
default FileContent overrideModelId(FileContent fileContent,
                                    Map<String,String> modelIdentifiers)
```
    Converts the file content to the handled model content entity, sets the given id, and converts back to a FileContent. If the id is already the expected one, it returns it unchanged.
    
    Parameters:
    
    fileContent - the FileContent wrapper to convert and fix
    
    modelIdentifiers - the mapping of the old ids to the new ones
    
    Returns:
    
    the fixed FileContent