camel-2.8.x/components/camel-bindy/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/dataformat/bindy/Format.java

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package org.apache.camel.dataformat.bindy;

/**
 * Format allows to format object to and from string received using format or
 * parse method
 */
public interface Format<T> {

    /**
     * Formats the object into a String
     * 
     * @param object the object
     * @return formatted as a String
     * @throws Exception can be thrown
     */
    String format(T object) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Parses a String into an object
     * 
     * @param string the string
     * @return T the object
     * @throws Exception can be thrown
     */
    T parse(String string) throws Exception;

}