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1 /* Copyright (c) 2003,2004, Stefan Haustein, Oberhausen, Rhld., Germany
2  *
3  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
4  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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20 
21 package org.ksoap2.serialization;
22 
23 import java.io.*;
24 import org.xmlpull.v1.*;
25 
26 /**
27  * Interface for custom (de)serialization.
28  */
29 
30 public interface Marshal {
31 
32     /**
33      * This methods reads an instance from the given parser. For implementation,
34      * please note that the start and and tag must be consumed. This is not
35      * symmetric to writeInstance, but otherwise it would not be possible to
36      * access the attributes of the start tag here.
37      *
38      * @param parser
39      *            the xml parser
40      * @param namespace
41      *            the namespace.
42      * @return the object read from the xml stream.
43      */
readInstance(XmlPullParser parser, String namespace, String name, PropertyInfo expected)44     public Object readInstance(XmlPullParser parser, String namespace, String name,
45             PropertyInfo expected)
46             throws IOException, XmlPullParserException;
47 
48     /**
49      * Write the instance to the given XmlSerializer. In contrast to
50      * readInstance, it is not neccessary to care about the surrounding start
51      * and end tags. Additional attributes must be writen before anything else
52      * is written.
53      *
54      * @param writer
55      *            the xml serializer.
56      * @param instance
57      *            the instance to write to the writer.
58      */
writeInstance(XmlSerializer writer, Object instance)59     public void writeInstance(XmlSerializer writer, Object instance) throws IOException;
60 
61     /**
62      * Register this Marshal with Envelope
63      *
64      * @param envelope
65      *            the soap serialization envelope.
66      */
register(SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope)67     public void register(SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope);
68 }
69