public interface Decoder
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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java.lang.Object |
decode(java.lang.Object source)
Decodes an "encoded" Object and returns a "decoded" Object.
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java.lang.Object decode(java.lang.Object source) throws DecoderException
ClassCastException
occurs this decode method will throw a DecoderException.source
- the object to decodeDecoderException
- 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
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