name : NormalizerInterface.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 interface of normalizers. * * @author Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be> */ interface NormalizerInterface { /** * Normalizes an object into a set of arrays/scalars * * @param object $object object to normalize * @param string $format format the normalization result will be encoded as * @param array $context Context options for the normalizer * * @return array|scalar */ public function normalize($object, $format = null, array $context = array()); /** * Checks whether the given class is supported for normalization by this normalizer * * @param mixed $data Data to normalize. * @param string $format The format being (de-)serialized from or into. * * @return Boolean */ public function supportsNormalization($data, $format = null); }