name : DenormalizableInterface.php <?php /* * This file is part of the Symfony package. * * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com> * * For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE * file that was distributed with this source code. */ namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer; /** * Defines the most basic interface a class must implement to be denormalizable * * If a denormalizer is registered for the class and it doesn't implement * the Denormalizable interfaces, the normalizer will be used instead * * @author Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be> */ interface DenormalizableInterface { /** * Denormalizes the object back from an array of scalars|arrays. * * It is important to understand that the denormalize() call should denormalize * recursively all child objects of the implementor. * * @param DenormalizerInterface $denormalizer The denormalizer is given so that you * can use it to denormalize objects contained within this object. * @param array|scalar $data The data from which to re-create the object. * @param string|null $format The format is optionally given to be able to denormalize differently * based on different input formats. * @param array $context options for denormalizing */ public function denormalize(DenormalizerInterface $denormalizer, $data, $format = null, array $context = array()); }