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| * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one |
| * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file |
| * distributed with this work for additional information |
| * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file |
| * to you 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 |
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| */ |
| package org.apache.xml.security.encryption; |
| |
| import java.io.IOException; |
| |
| import org.apache.xml.security.c14n.Canonicalizer; |
| import org.w3c.dom.Element; |
| import org.w3c.dom.Node; |
| import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; |
| |
| /** |
| * Converts <code>String</code>s into <code>Node</code>s and visa versa. |
| */ |
| public interface Serializer { |
| |
| /** |
| * Set the Canonicalizer object to use. |
| */ |
| void setCanonicalizer(Canonicalizer canon); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns a <code>byte[]</code> representation of the specified |
| * <code>Element</code>. |
| * |
| * @param element the <code>Element</code> to serialize. |
| * @return the <code>byte[]</code> representation of the serilaized |
| * <code>Element</code>. |
| * @throws Exception |
| */ |
| byte[] serializeToByteArray(Element element) throws Exception; |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns a <code>byte[]</code> representation of the specified |
| * <code>NodeList</code>. |
| * |
| * @param content the <code>NodeList</code> to serialize. |
| * @return the <code>byte[]</code> representation of the serialized |
| * <code>NodeList</code>. |
| * @throws Exception |
| */ |
| byte[] serializeToByteArray(NodeList content) throws Exception; |
| |
| /** |
| * Use the Canonicalizer to serialize the node |
| * @param node |
| * @return the (byte[]) canonicalization of the node |
| * @throws Exception |
| */ |
| byte[] canonSerializeToByteArray(Node node) throws Exception; |
| |
| /** |
| * @param source |
| * @param ctx |
| * @param secureValidation |
| * @return the Node resulting from the parse of the source |
| * @throws XMLEncryptionException |
| */ |
| Node deserialize(byte[] source, Node ctx, boolean secureValidation) throws XMLEncryptionException, IOException; |
| } |