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package org.apache.synapse.commons.evaluators.config;
import org.apache.axiom.om.OMElement;
import org.apache.synapse.commons.evaluators.Evaluator;
import org.apache.synapse.commons.evaluators.EvaluatorException;
/**
* This interface should be implemented by the classes to serialize the {@link Evaluator}
* object model in to XML configuration.
*/
public interface EvaluatorSerializer {
/**
* Serialze an Evaluator configuration to a XML element.
* @param parent if not null the serialize element will be added to the parent
* @param evaluator The <code>Evaluator</code> object to be serialized
*
* @return <code>OMElement</code> containing the configuration
* @throws org.apache.synapse.commons.evaluators.EvaluatorException if an error
* occurs while serializing
*/
OMElement serialize(OMElement parent, Evaluator evaluator) throws EvaluatorException;
}