MarshallerProvider.java

/*
 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
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package org.jboss.netty.handler.codec.marshalling;

import org.jboss.marshalling.Marshaller;
import org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;

/**
 * This provider is responsible to get a {@link Marshaller} for the given {@link ChannelHandlerContext}.
 *
 *
 */
public interface MarshallerProvider {

    /**
     * Get a {@link Marshaller} for the given {@link ChannelHandlerContext}
     */
    Marshaller getMarshaller(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception;
}