view core/lib/Drupal/Component/Serialization/SerializationInterface.php @ 13:5fb285c0d0e3

Update Drupal core to 8.4.7 via Composer. Security update; I *think* we've
been lucky to get away with this so far, as we don't support self-registration
which seems to be used by the so-called "drupalgeddon 2" attack that 8.4.5
was vulnerable to.

<?php

namespace Drupal\Component\Serialization;

/**
 * Defines an interface for serialization formats.
 */
interface SerializationInterface {

  /**
   * Encodes data into the serialization format.
   *
   * @param mixed $data
   *   The data to encode.
   *
   * @return string
   *   The encoded data.
   */
  public static function encode($data);

  /**
   * Decodes data from the serialization format.
   *
   * @param string $raw
   *   The raw data string to decode.
   *
   * @return mixed
   *   The decoded data.
   */
  public static function decode($raw);

  /**
   * Gets the file extension for this serialization format.
   *
   * @return string
   *   The file extension, without leading dot.
   */
  public static function getFileExtension();

}