public interface Decoder
Provides the highest level of abstraction for Decoders.
This is the sister interface of Encoder
. All
Decoders implement this common generic interface.
Allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Decoder implementation in the codec package.
One of the two interfaces at the center of the codec package.
Object decode(Object source) throws DecoderException
ClassCastException
occurs
this decode method will throw a DecoderException.source
- the object to decodeDecoderException
- a decoder exception can
be thrown for any number of reasons. Some good
candidates are that the parameter passed to this
method is null, a param cannot be cast to the
appropriate type for a specific encoder.This software is published under the BSD license. Copyright © 2003-${build.year}, CRIXP AG, Switzerland, All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms.