/**
* Licensed to jclouds, Inc. (jclouds) under one or more
* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
* distributed with this work for additional information
* regarding copyright ownership. jclouds licenses this file
* to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
* "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
* with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
* KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
* specific language governing permissions and limitations
* under the License.
*/
package org.jclouds.json;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
/**
* @author Adrian Cole
*/
public interface Json {
/**
* Serialize the object into json. If the object is a generic type, use
* {@link #toJson(Object, Type)}
*/
String toJson(Object src);
/**
* Serialize the generic object into json. If the object is not a generic, use
* {@link #toJson(Object, Type)}
*/
String toJson(Object src, Type type);
/**
* Deserialize the generic object from json. If the object is not a generic type, use
* {@link #fromJson(Object, Class)}
*/
<T> T fromJson(String json, Type type);
/**
* Deserialize the object from json. If the object is a generic type, use
* {@link #fromJson(Object, Type)}
*/
<T> T fromJson(String json, Class<T> classOfT);
}