Java Web Services in a Nutshell

Name

Deserializer

Synopsis

public interface Deserializer extends java.io.Serializable {
// Public Instance Methods
    public abstract String getMechanismType(  ); 
}

A Deserializer is a class that can convert from an XML fragment into a corresponding Java object or Java primitive. The deserialization process might accept XML in the form of a SAX stream, a DOM model, or in some other form. The JAX-RPC specification does not give a list of supported input types (which it refers to as mechanism types), but the reference implementation supports deserialization from a raw input stream of XML characters. The getMechanismType( ) method returns an identifier for the input type that the deserializer supports.

The Deserializer interface does not actually contain a method that causes deserialization to occur. The JAX-RPC 1.0 specification does not attempt to create a standard or portable deserialization mechanism and therefore does not specify the means by which deserialization is actually performed. The reference implementation uses private deserializers that implement the Deserializer interface and uses methods that are not part of the public API to invoke them.

Returned By

DeserializerFactory.getDeserializerAs( )