geronimo-jaxrpc_1.1_spec/src/main/java/javax/xml/rpc/encoding/DeserializerFactory.java

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package javax.xml.rpc.encoding;

/**
 * The javax.xml.rpc.encoding.DeserializerFactory is a factory of
 * deserializers. A DeserializerFactory is registered with a
 * TypeMapping instance as part of the TypeMappingRegistry.
 *
 * @version $Rev$ $Date$
 */
public interface DeserializerFactory extends java.io.Serializable {

    /**
     * Returns a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type.
     *
     * @param mechanismType XML processing mechanism type [TBD: definition of
     *              valid constants]
     *
     * @return a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type
     *
     * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException if DeserializerFactory does not
     *             support the specified XML processing mechanism
     */
    public Deserializer getDeserializerAs(String mechanismType);

    /**
     * Returns an <code>Iterator</code> over the list of all XML processing
     * mechanism types supported by this <code>DeserializerFactory</code>.
     *
     * @return an <code>Iterator</code> over the unique identifiers for the
     *              supported XML processing mechanism types (as
     *              <code>String</code>s?)
     */
    public java.util.Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes();
}