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* Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*
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package org.jboss.errai.marshalling.client.api;
/**
* @author Mike Brock <cbrock@redhat.com>
* @author Christian Sadilek <csadilek@redhat.com>
*/
public interface MarshallerFactory {
/**
* Returns a {@link Marshaller} capable of handling the specified encodedType
*
* @param encodedType
* The fully-qualified Java class name of the encoded type
*
* @return a marshaller instance.
*/
Marshaller<Object> getMarshaller(String encodedType);
/**
* Registers a {@link Marshaller} for the type with the provided fully qualified class name.
*
* @param fqcn
* the fully qualified type name of the marshallable type.
* @param marshaller
* the marshaller instance
*/
void registerMarshaller(String fqcn, Marshaller<Object> marshaller);
}