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package com.google.gson;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
/**
* Context for deserialization that is passed to a custom deserializer during invocation of its
* {@link JsonDeserializer#deserialize(JsonElement, Type, JsonDeserializationContext)}
* method.
*
* @author Inderjeet Singh
* @author Joel Leitch
*/
public interface JsonDeserializationContext {
/**
* Invokes default deserialization on the specified object. It should never be invoked on
* the element received as a parameter of the
* {@link JsonDeserializer#deserialize(JsonElement, Type, JsonDeserializationContext)} method. Doing
* so will result in an infinite loop since Gson will in-turn call the custom deserializer again.
*
* @param json the parse tree.
* @param typeOfT type of the expected return value.
* @param The type of the deserialized object.
* @return An object of type typeOfT.
* @throws JsonParseException if the parse tree does not contain expected data.
*/
public T deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT) throws JsonParseException;
}