1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community 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.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
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 org.kuali.rice.krad.service;
17
18 /**
19 * This interface defines methods that an XmlObjectSerializer Service must provide. This will wrap our needs for xml to object and
20 * object to xml functionality.
21 *
22 *
23 */
24 public interface XmlObjectSerializerService {
25 /**
26 * Marshals out XML from an object instance.
27 *
28 * @param object
29 * @return
30 */
31 public String toXml(Object object);
32
33 /**
34 * Retrieves an Object instance from a String of XML - unmarshals.
35 *
36 * @param xml
37 * @return
38 */
39 public Object fromXml(String xml);
40
41 }