/******************************************************************************* | |
* Copyright (c) 2011 Mia-Software. | |
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials | |
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 | |
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at | |
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html | |
* | |
* Contributors: | |
* Nicolas Bros (Mia-Software) - initial API and implementation | |
* Nicolas Bros (Mia-Software) - Bug 338907 - expose serialization services from SerializationFactoryImpl | |
*******************************************************************************/ | |
package org.eclipse.emf.facet.util.emf.core.serialization; | |
import org.eclipse.emf.facet.util.emf.core.internal.serialization.SerializationService; | |
/** | |
* Provides a serialization service so that the following is true:<br/> | |
* <code>deserialize(serialize(object)) == object</code> | |
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. | |
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients. | |
*/ | |
public interface ISerializationService { | |
public ISerializationService INSTANCE = new SerializationService(); | |
/** Serialize the given value. */ | |
String serialize(Object instanceValue); | |
/** Deserialize the given string back into the value. */ | |
Object deserialize(String serializedValue); | |
} |