1 /*
2 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package javax.xml.rpc.encoding;
17
18 import java.util.Iterator;
19
20 /**
21 * The javax.xml.rpc.encoding.SerializerFactory is a factory of
22 * the serializers. A SerializerFactory is registered with a
23 * TypeMapping object as part of the TypeMappingRegistry.
24 *
25 * @version 1.0
26 */
27 public interface SerializerFactory extends java.io.Serializable {
28
29 /**
30 * Returns a Serializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type.
31 *
32 * @param mechanismType - XML processing mechanism type [TBD: definition
33 * of valid constants]
34 *
35 * @return a <code>Serializer</code> for the specified XML processing
36 * mechanism type
37 *
38 * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException
39 * if <code>SerializerFactory</code> does not support the
40 * specified XML processing mechanism
41 * @throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
42 * if an invalid mechanism type is specified
43 */
44 public Serializer getSerializerAs(String mechanismType);
45
46 /**
47 * Returns an Iterator over all XML processing mechanism types supported by
48 * this <code>SerializerFactory</code>.
49 *
50 * @return an Iterator over the mechanism types (<Code>String</code>s?)
51 */
52 public Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes();
53 }
54
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