001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 003 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 004 * distributed with this work for additional information 005 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 006 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 007 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 008 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 009 * 010 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 011 * 012 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 013 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 014 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 015 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 016 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 017 * under the License. 018 */ 019 020 package javax.xml.rpc.encoding; 021 022 /** 023 * The javax.xml.rpc.encoding.DeserializerFactory is a factory of 024 * deserializers. A DeserializerFactory is registered with a 025 * TypeMapping instance as part of the TypeMappingRegistry. 026 * 027 * @version $Rev: 467553 $ $Date: 2006-10-25 00:01:51 -0400 (Wed, 25 Oct 2006) $ 028 */ 029 public interface DeserializerFactory extends java.io.Serializable { 030 031 /** 032 * Returns a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type. 033 * 034 * @param mechanismType XML processing mechanism type [TBD: definition of 035 * valid constants] 036 * 037 * @return a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type 038 * 039 * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException if DeserializerFactory does not 040 * support the specified XML processing mechanism 041 */ 042 public Deserializer getDeserializerAs(String mechanismType); 043 044 /** 045 * Returns an <code>Iterator</code> over the list of all XML processing 046 * mechanism types supported by this <code>DeserializerFactory</code>. 047 * 048 * @return an <code>Iterator</code> over the unique identifiers for the 049 * supported XML processing mechanism types (as 050 * <code>String</code>s?) 051 */ 052 public java.util.Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes(); 053 } 054