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6 * (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
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12 namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer;
15 * Defines the interface of normalizers.
17 * @author Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be>
19 interface NormalizerInterface
22 * Normalizes an object into a set of arrays/scalars.
24 * @param object $object object to normalize
25 * @param string $format format the normalization result will be encoded as
26 * @param array $context Context options for the normalizer
28 * @return array|scalar
30 public function normalize($object, $format = null, array $context = array());
33 * Checks whether the given class is supported for normalization by this normalizer.
35 * @param mixed $data Data to normalize
36 * @param string $format The format being (de-)serialized from or into
40 public function supportsNormalization($data, $format = null);