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| * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
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| * Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in |
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| * |
| * 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 |
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| */ |
| package org.apache.pivot.io; |
| |
| import java.io.InputStream; |
| import java.io.OutputStream; |
| import java.io.IOException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Defines an interface for writing objects to and reading objects from a data |
| * stream. |
| * |
| * @param <T> |
| * The type of data being read and written. |
| */ |
| public interface Serializer<T> { |
| /** |
| * Reads an object from an input stream. |
| * |
| * @param inputStream |
| * The data stream from which the object will be read. |
| * |
| * @return |
| * The deserialized object. |
| */ |
| public T readObject(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException, SerializationException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Writes an object to an output stream. |
| * |
| * @param object |
| * The object to serialize. |
| * |
| * @param outputStream |
| * The data stream to which the object will be written. |
| */ |
| public void writeObject(T object, OutputStream outputStream) throws IOException, SerializationException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the MIME type of the data read and written by this serializer. |
| * |
| * @param object |
| * If provided, allows the serializer to attach parameters to the returned |
| * MIME type containing more detailed information about the data. If |
| * <tt>null</tt>, the base MIME type is returned. |
| */ |
| public String getMIMEType(T object); |
| } |