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34 lines
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11 years ago
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package de.timroes.axmlrpc.serializer;
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import de.timroes.axmlrpc.XMLRPCException;
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import de.timroes.axmlrpc.xmlcreator.XmlElement;
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import org.w3c.dom.Element;
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/**
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* A Serializer is responsible to serialize a specific type of data to
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* an xml tag and deserialize the content of this xml tag back to an object.
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*
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* @author Tim Roes
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*/
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public interface Serializer {
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/**
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* This method takes an xml type element and deserialize it to an object.
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*
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* @param content Must be an xml element of a specific type.
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* @return The deserialized content.
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* @throws XMLRPCException Will be thrown whenervt the deserialization fails.
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*/
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public Object deserialize(Element content) throws XMLRPCException;
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/**
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* This method takes an object and returns a representation as a string
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* containing the right xml type tag. The returning string must be useable
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* within a value tag.
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*
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* @param object The object that should be serialized.
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* @return An XmlElement representation of the object.
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*/
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public XmlElement serialize(Object object);
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}
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