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RestKit/Code/Support/RKSerialization.h
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//
// RKSerialization.h
// RestKit
//
// Created by Blake Watters on 10/1/10.
// Copyright (c) 2009-2012 RestKit. All rights reserved.
//
// Licensed 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 specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
//
/**
The `RKSerialization` protocol declares two methods that a class must implement so that it can provide support for serializing objects to and deserializing objects from UTF-8 encoded data representations of a serialization format such as JSON or XML. Serialization implementations typically handle data in a given MIME Type (i.e. `application/json`) and may be registered with the `RKMIMETypeSerialization` class.
@see `RKMIMETypeSerialization`
*/
@protocol RKSerialization <NSObject>
///------------------------------
/// @name Deserializing an Object
///------------------------------
/**
Deserializes and returns the given data in the format supported by the receiver (i.e. JSON, XML, etc) as a Foundation object representation.
@param data The UTF-8 encoded data representation of the object to be deserialized.
@param error A pointer to an `NSError` object.
@return A Foundation object from the serialized data in data, or nil if an error occurs.
*/
+ (id)objectFromData:(NSData *)data error:(NSError **)error;
///----------------------------
/// @name Serializing an Object
///----------------------------
/**
Serializes and returns a UTF-8 encoded data representation of the given Foundation object in the format supported by the receiver (i.e. JSON, XML, etc).
@param object The object to be serialized.
@param error A pointer to an NSError object.
@return A data representation of the given object in UTF-8 encoding, or nil if an error occurred.
*/
+ (NSData *)dataFromObject:(id)object error:(NSError **)error;
@end