Uses of Class
com.marringtons.object.DAO

Packages that use DAO

com.marringtons.object	The Adept object package provides sophisticated object manipulation and storage, including a full-featured object database.
com.marringtons.util	Every library requires a catch-all packages for classes that cannot be easily grouped elsewhere - and here it is - caches, maps, semaphores, sessions, threads and much more.

Uses of DAO in com.marringtons.object

Methods in com.marringtons.object that return DAO

DAO	DAO.get(int record) Get the record from the cache if available, otherwise from the database.
DAO	DAO.load() If you are using lazy loading on a first/next, then you will need to use load() on DAOs inside the DAO returned (relational DAOs) to ensure that the data is loaded.
DAO	DAO.copy() Return a copy of a DAO object that can then be added to the database as a new record.
static DAO	DAO.newInstance(Class daoClass) Factory method to make a new instance of a DAO.
DAO	Migration.Interface.migrate() When a database object class needs to change, copy it as an inner class into the Migrations class in the same package and have it implement Migration.Interface.
static DAO	ObjectXML.fromXML(Database db, BufferedReader reader, boolean unique, Translator translator) Given a stream of XML, extract the objects and save them into the current database.
DAO	Search.first(Index index) Retrieve the first of a list of objects that match the provided index.
DAO	Search.first(int integerIndex) Retrieve the first of a list of objects that match the provided integer index.
DAO	Search.first(String stringIndex) Retrieve the first of a list of objects that match the provided string index.
DAO	Search.next() Retrieve the next matching record.

Methods in com.marringtons.object with parameters of type DAO

static Messages	ObjectScraper.fromProperties(DAO dao, Properties properties, Translator translator) Scrape string data in Properties format into the a DAO using an explicit translator.
static Messages	ObjectScraper.toProperties(Properties properties, String inclusions, DAO dao, Formatter formatter) Convert a Java Object to a name/value pair set of string properties.
static String	ObjectXML.toXML(DAO dao) Convert a DAO to an XML representation.
static void	ObjectXML.toXML(Writer writer, DAO dao) Create an XML stream of all objects pointed to by a single index in a single related database.
static void	ObjectXML.toXML(BufferedWriter writer, DAO dao) Create an XML stream of all objects pointed to by a single index in a single related database.

Constructors in com.marringtons.object with parameters of type DAO

Search(DAO dao, Search.Load load, Search.Access access)
Create a search object for retrieving specified objects from the database.

Uses of DAO in com.marringtons.util

Subclasses of DAO in com.marringtons.util

static class

Session.PersistentData This is DAO class used to persist session data to disk.