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<?php
/*
* This file is part of the Symfony package.
*
* (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
*
* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*/
namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer;
/**
* Defines the interface of denormalizers.
*
* @author Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be>
*/
interface DenormalizerInterface
{
/**
* Denormalizes data back into an object of the given class
*
* @param mixed $data data to restore
* @param string $class the expected class to instantiate
* @param string $format format the given data was extracted from
* @param array $context options available to the denormalizer
*
* @return object
*/
public function denormalize($data, $class, $format = null, array $context = array());
/**
* Checks whether the given class is supported for denormalization by this normalizer
*
* @param mixed $data Data to denormalize from.
* @param string $type The class to which the data should be denormalized.
* @param string $format The format being deserialized from.
*
* @return Boolean
*/
public function supportsDenormalization($data, $type, $format = null);
}