2 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
4 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
5 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
6 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8 package org.opendaylight.yangtools.concepts;
10 import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
13 * The concept of a deserializer, which produces an object from some input.
15 * @param <P> Product type
16 * @param <I> Input type
17 * @param <X> Error exception type
19 public interface Deserializer<P, I, X extends Exception> {
21 * Produce an object base on input.
23 * @param input Input object
24 * @return Product derived from input
25 * @throws NullPointerException if input is null
26 * @throws X when input is not valid
28 @NonNull P deserialize(@NonNull I input) throws X;