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.
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 © 2003–2014 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.