OpenLayers. Format

Base class for format reading/writing a variety of formats.  Subclasses of OpenLayers.Format are expected to have read and write methods.

Summary
Base class for format reading/writing a variety of formats.
Instances of this class are not useful.
Read data from a string, and return an object whose type depends on the subclass.
Accept an object, and return a string.

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

Returns

An instance of OpenLayers.Format

Functions

read

read: function(data)

Read data from a string, and return an object whose type depends on the subclass.

Parameters

data{string} Data to read/parse.

Returns

Depends on the subclass

write

write: function(object)

Accept an object, and return a string.

Parameters

object{Object} Object to be serialized

Returns

{String} A string representation of the object.

read: function(data)
Read data from a string, and return an object whose type depends on the subclass.
write: function(object)
Accept an object, and return a string.