/**
* Copyright 2010 Google Inc.
*
* 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
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*
*/
package org.waveprotocol.wave.communication.gwt;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptObject;
/**
* An interface that is responsible for converting a javascript object to/from a
* JSON string.
*
*/
public interface JsonSerializer {
/**
* Serialize a javascript object into a JSON string
* @param obj the JSO to serialize, this object must be simple and doesn't
* contains any loop.
* @return JSON string
*/
String serialize(JavaScriptObject obj);
/**
* Parse a json string into a JavaScriptObject
*
* @param str JSON string to parse
* @return the JavaScriptObject contains the data in the json string.
*/
JavaScriptObject parse(String str);
}