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.
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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Object |
decode(Object object)
Decodes an "encoded" Object and returns a "decoded" Object.
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Object decode(Object object) throws DecoderException
ClassCastException
occurs this decode method will throw
a DecoderException.object
- an object to "decode"DecoderException
- 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.Copyright © 2003–2018 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.