axis-rt-core/src/main/java/org/apache/axis/encoding/Target.java

/*
 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 * 
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package org.apache.axis.encoding;

import org.xml.sax.SAXException;


/**
 * A deserializer constructs a value from the xml passed over the wire and
 * sets a target.  The value is set on the target in a number of ways:
 * setting a field, calling a method, setting an indexed property.
 * The Target interface hides the complexity.  The set method is simply
 * invoked with the value.  A class that implements the Target interface
 * needs to supply enough information in the constructor to properly do the
 * set (for example see MethodTarget)
 */
public interface Target         
{
    public void set(Object value) throws SAXException;
}