| /* |
| * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. |
| * |
| * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); |
| * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. |
| * You may obtain a copy of the License at |
| * |
| * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| * |
| * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
| * limitations under the License. |
| */ |
| 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 1.0 |
| */ |
| 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(); |
| } |
| |