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017 package org.apache.camel.spi;
018
019 import java.io.InputStream;
020 import java.io.OutputStream;
021
022 import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
023
024 /**
025 * Represents a
026 * <a href="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/data-format.html">data format</a>
027 * used to marshal objects to and from streams
028 * such as Java Serialization or using JAXB2 to encode/decode objects using XML
029 * or using SOAP encoding.
030 *
031 * @version $Revision: 640438 $
032 */
033 public interface DataFormat {
034
035 /**
036 * Marshals the object to the given Stream.
037 */
038 void marshal(Exchange exchange, Object graph, OutputStream stream) throws Exception;
039
040 /**
041 * Unmarshals the given stream into an object.
042 */
043 Object unmarshal(Exchange exchange, InputStream stream) throws Exception;
044 }