001    /*
002     * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
003     * 
004     * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005     * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006     * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007     * 
008     *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
009     * 
010     * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011     * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012     * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013     * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014     * limitations under the License.
015     */
016    package javax.xml.rpc.encoding;
017    
018    /**
019     * The javax.xml.rpc.encoding.DeserializerFactory is a factory of
020     * deserializers. A DeserializerFactory is registered with a
021     * TypeMapping instance as part of the TypeMappingRegistry.
022     *
023     * @version 1.0
024     */
025    public interface DeserializerFactory extends java.io.Serializable {
026    
027        /**
028         * Returns a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type.
029         *
030         * @param mechanismType XML processing mechanism type [TBD: definition of
031         *              valid constants]
032         *
033         * @return a Deserializer for the specified XML processing mechanism type
034         *
035         * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException if DeserializerFactory does not
036         *             support the specified XML processing mechanism
037         */
038        public Deserializer getDeserializerAs(String mechanismType);
039    
040        /**
041         * Returns an <code>Iterator</code> over the list of all XML processing
042         * mechanism types supported by this <code>DeserializerFactory</code>.
043         *
044         * @return an <code>Iterator</code> over the unique identifiers for the
045         *              supported XML processing mechanism types (as
046         *              <code>String</code>s?)
047         */
048        public java.util.Iterator getSupportedMechanismTypes();
049    }
050