name : NormalizableInterface.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 normalizable * * If a normalizer is registered for the class and it doesn't implement * the Normalizable interfaces, the normalizer will be used instead * * @author Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be> */ interface NormalizableInterface { /** * Normalizes the object into an array of scalars|arrays. * * It is important to understand that the normalize() call should normalize * recursively all child objects of the implementor. * * @param NormalizerInterface $normalizer The normalizer is given so that you * can use it to normalize objects contained within this object. * @param string|null $format The format is optionally given to be able to normalize differently * based on different output formats. * @param array $context Options for normalizing this object * * @return array|scalar */ public function normalize(NormalizerInterface $normalizer, $format = null, array $context = array()); }