<?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 $format The format being (de-)serialized from or into
* @return bool
public function supportsNormalization($data, $format = null);
}