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A set of utilities and tools to speed up and ease programming in Java.

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/*
 * (c) 2005 David B. Bracewell
 *
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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package com.davidbracewell.io.serialization;


import com.davidbracewell.io.resource.Resource;

/**
 * A common interface for serializing and deserializing objects.
 *
 * @author David B. Bracewell
 */
public interface Serializer {

  /**
   * Serializes the object saving the results to the resource
   *
   * @param o        The object
   * @param resource The resource to serialize to
   * @throws Exception Something went wrong serializing
   */
  void serialize(Object o, Resource resource) throws Exception;

  /**
   * Deserializes an object from a resource
   *
   * @param resource The resource containing the object
   * @param clazz    Class information for the object
   * @param       the type of object
   * @return The deserialized object
   * @throws Exception Something went wrong deserializing the object
   */
   T deserialize(Resource resource, Class clazz) throws Exception;


}//END OF Serializer