/*
* Copyright (c) 2010 The Jackson Laboratory
*
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* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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*
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*/
package org.jax.gwtutil.client;
import com.google.gwt.json.client.JSONValue;
/**
* For deserializing JSON values
* @author <A HREF="mailto:keith.sheppard@jax.org">Keith Sheppard</A>
* @param <T>
* the type of object this derserializes to
*/
public interface JsonObjectDeserializer<T>
{
/**
* Convert the given JSON string into an object
* @param jsonValue
* the JSON value
* @return
* the java object
* @throws IllegalArgumentException
* if the JSON value is a bad match for the object structure that
* we want to see
*/
public T fromJsonValue(JSONValue jsonValue) throws IllegalArgumentException;
}