/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2011 Mia-Software.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Nicolas Bros (Mia-Software) - initial API and implementation
* Nicolas Bros (Mia-Software) - Bug 338907 - expose serialization services from SerializationFactoryImpl
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.emf.facet.util.emf.core.serialization;
import org.eclipse.emf.facet.util.emf.core.internal.serialization.SerializationService;
/**
* Provides a serialization service so that the following is true:
* deserialize(serialize(object)) == object
*/
public interface ISerializationService {
public ISerializationService INSTANCE = new SerializationService();
/** Serialize the given value. */
String serialize(Object instanceValue);
/** Deserialize the given string back into the value. */
Object deserialize(String serializedValue);
}