CharacterEscapeHandler (EclipseLink Core 4.0.2 API)

All Known Subinterfaces:

CharacterEscapeHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

CharacterEscapeHandlerWrapper
```
public interface CharacterEscapeHandler
```
Provide an interface to allow for custom character escaping behaviour.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`escape(char[] buffer, int start, int length, boolean isAttributeValue, Writer out)`	Perform character escaping and write the result to the output.

- Method Detail
  - escape
```
void escape(char[] buffer,
            int start,
            int length,
            boolean isAttributeValue,
            Writer out)
     throws IOException
```
    Perform character escaping and write the result to the output.
    
    Note: This feature is not supported when marshalling to the following targets:
    
    javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamWriter
    
    javax.xml.stream.XMLEventWriter
    
    org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
    
    org.w3c.dom.Node
    Parameters:
    
    buffer - Array of characters to be escaped
    
    start - The starting position
    
    length - The number of characters being escaped
    
    isAttributeValue - A value of 'true' indicates this is an attribute value
    
    out - The resulting escaped characters will be written to this Writer
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException - In an error condition, IOException can be thrown to stop the marshalling process