annotate vendor/symfony/serializer/Normalizer/DenormalizerInterface.php @ 0:4c8ae668cc8c

Initial import (non-working)

<?php

/*
 * This file is part of the Symfony package.
 *
 * (c) Fabien Potencier <[e-mail]>
 *
 * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
 * file that was distributed with this source code.
 */

namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer;

/**
 * Defines the interface of denormalizers.
 *
 * @author Jordi Boggiano <[e-mail]>
 */
interface DenormalizerInterface
{
    /**
     * Denormalizes data back into an object of the given class.
     *
     * @param mixed  $data    data to restore
     * @param string $class   the expected class to instantiate
     * @param string $format  format the given data was extracted from
     * @param array  $context options available to the denormalizer
     *
     * @return object
     */
    public function denormalize($data, $class, $format = null, array $context = array());

    /**
     * Checks whether the given class is supported for denormalization by this normalizer.
     *
     * @param mixed  $data   Data to denormalize from
     * @param string $type   The class to which the data should be denormalized
     * @param string $format The format being deserialized from
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function supportsDenormalization($data, $type, $format = null);
}