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Copyright (C) 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Andrew Kachites McCallum <mccallum@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 1995
Updated by: Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk>
Date: 1998
This file is part of the GNUstep Base Library.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02111 USA.
*/
#ifndef __NSSerialization_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#define __NSSerialization_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE
#import <GNUstepBase/GSVersionMacros.h>
#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
@class NSData, NSMutableData;
/**
* Objects that are not standard property list constituents can adopt this
* protocol to allow themselves to be serialized by an [NSSerializer] and
* deserialized by an [NSDeserializer]. <em>Note, this mechanism has been
* deprecated and you should instead use [NSArchiver] and related facilities
* to serialize objects that are not ordinary property lists.</em>
*/
@protocol NSObjCTypeSerializationCallBack
/**
* Decodes an object of given type from data at position cursor.
*/
- (void) deserializeObjectAt: (id*)object
ofObjCType: (const char *)type
fromData: (NSData*)data
atCursor: (unsigned*)cursor;
/**
* Encode the given object of given type into data, using a string not a
* binary representation.
*/
- (void) serializeObjectAt: (id*)object
ofObjCType: (const char *)type
intoData: (NSMutableData*)data;
@end
/**
* <p><em>This class is deprecated in favor of
* [NSPropertyListSerialization].</em></p>
*
* <p>It provides a means of producing a byte-array (actually string)
* representation of a property list (NSArray or NSDictionary plus limited
* contents).</p>
*/
@interface NSSerializer: NSObject
/**
* <p>Serialize given property list (NSArray or NSDictionary plus limited
* contents) into byte array.</p>
* <p><em>Deprecated in favor of
* [NSPropertyListSerialization+dataFromPropertyList:format:errorDescription:].
* </em></p>
*/
+ (NSData*) serializePropertyList: (id)propertyList;
/**
* <p>Serialize given property list (NSArray or NSDictionary plus limited
* contents) into given mutable byte array.</p>
* <p><em>Deprecated in favor of
* [NSPropertyListSerialization+dataFromPropertyList:format:errorDescription:].
* </em></p>
*/
+ (void) serializePropertyList: (id)propertyList
intoData: (NSMutableData*)d;
@end
#if GS_API_VERSION(GS_API_NONE, 011700)
/**
* GNUstep extends serialization by having the option to make the
* resulting data more compact by ensuring that repeated strings
* are only stored once. If the property-list has a lot of repeated
* strings in it, this will be both faster and more space efficient
* but it will be slower if the property-list has few repeated
* strings. The default is NOT to generate compact versions of the data.
*
* The [+shouldBeCompact:] method sets default behavior.
* The [+serializePropertyList:intoData:compact:] method lets you
* override the default behavior.
*/
@interface NSSerializer (GNUstep)
/**
* Specify whether to produce compacted format, with repeated strings only
* written once.
*/
+ (void) shouldBeCompact: (BOOL)flag;
/**
* As [NSSerializer+serializePropertyList:intoData:] but specify whether to
* produce compacted format.
*/
+ (void) serializePropertyList: (id)propertyList
intoData: (NSMutableData*)d
compact: (BOOL)flag;
@end
#endif
/**
* <em>This class is deprecated in favor of
* [NSPropertyListSerialization].</em> It provides a means of recovering a
* property list (NSArray or NSDictionary plus limited contents) from a
* byte-array (actually string) representation.
*/
@interface NSDeserializer: NSObject
/**
* Recover a property list (NSArray or NSDictionary plus limited
* contents) from a byte array.
* <em>Deprecated in favor of
* [NSPropertyListSerialization
* +propertyListFromData:mutabilityOption:format:errorDescription:].</em>
*/
+ (id) deserializePropertyListFromData: (NSData*)data
atCursor: (unsigned int*)cursor
mutableContainers: (BOOL)flag;
/**
* Recover a property list (NSArray or NSDictionary plus limited
* contents) from a byte array.
* <em>Deprecated in favor of
* [NSPropertyListSerialization
* +propertyListFromData:mutabilityOption:format:errorDescription:].</em>
*/
+ (id) deserializePropertyListFromData: (NSData*)data
mutableContainers: (BOOL)flag;
/**
* Recover a property list (NSArray or NSDictionary plus limited contents)
* from a byte array. If the data at cursor has a length greater than
* length, a proxy is substituted for the actual property list as long as the
* constituent objects of that property list are not accessed.
* <em>Deprecated in favor of
* [NSPropertyListSerialization
* +propertyListFromData:mutabilityOption:format:errorDescription:].</em>
*/
+ (id) deserializePropertyListLazilyFromData: (NSData*)data
atCursor: (unsigned*)cursor
length: (unsigned)length
mutableContainers: (BOOL)flag;
@end
#if OS_API_VERSION(GS_API_NONE, GS_API_NONE)
/**
* <p>GNUstep extends deserialization by having the option to make the
* resulting data more compact by ensuring that repeated strings
* are only stored once. If the property-list has a lot of repeated
* strings in it, this will be more space efficient but it will be
* slower (though other parts of your code may speed up through more
* efficient equality testing of uniqued strings).
* The default is NOT to deserialize uniqued strings.</p>
*
* <p>The [+uniquing:] method turns uniquing on/off.
* Uniquing is done using a global [NSCountedSet] - see its documentation
* for details.</p>
*/
@interface NSDeserializer (GNUstep)
/**
* Turns uniquing (collapsing of multiple instances of a single string in the
* output to one full copy plus references) on/off.
*/
+ (void) uniquing: (BOOL)flag;
@end
#endif
#if defined(__cplusplus)
}
#endif
#endif /* __NSSerialization_h_GNUSTEP_BASE_INCLUDE */
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