1 /* 2 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache 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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 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 javax.xml.rpc.encoding; 17 18 /** 19 * The javax.xml.rpc.encoding.DeserializerFactory is a factory of 20 * deserializers. A DeserializerFactory is registered with a 21 * TypeMapping instance as part of the TypeMappingRegistry. 22 * 23 * @version 1.0 24 */ 25 public interface DeserializerFactory extends java.io.Serializable { 26 27 /** 28 * Returns a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type. 29 * 30 * @param mechanismType XML processing mechanism type [TBD: definition of 31 * valid constants] 32 * 33 * @return a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type 34 * 35 * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException if DeserializerFactory does not 36 * support the specified XML processing mechanism 37 */ 38 public Deserializer getDeserializerAs(String mechanismType); 39 40 /** 41 * Returns an <code>Iterator</code> over the list of all XML processing 42 * mechanism types supported by this <code>DeserializerFactory</code>. 43 * 44 * @return an <code>Iterator</code> over the unique identifiers for the 45 * supported XML processing mechanism types (as 46 * <code>String</code>s?) 47 */ 48 public java.util.Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes(); 49 } 50 51