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| * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with |
| * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
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| * (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 org.jclouds.xml; |
| |
| import java.io.IOException; |
| |
| import org.jclouds.xml.internal.JAXBParser; |
| |
| import com.google.inject.ImplementedBy; |
| |
| /** |
| * Parses XML documents. |
| */ |
| @ImplementedBy(JAXBParser.class) |
| public interface XMLParser { |
| /** The default xml header. */ |
| String DEFAULT_XML_HEADER = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>"; |
| |
| /** |
| * Serialize the object into xml. |
| */ |
| String toXML(Object src) throws IOException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Serialize the object into xml, as the declared type. |
| */ |
| <T> String toXML(Object src, Class<T> type) throws IOException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Deserialize the object from xml. |
| */ |
| <T> T fromXML(String xml, Class<T> type) throws IOException; |
| |
| } |