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12 namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer;
15 * Defines the most basic interface a class must implement to be denormalizable.
17 * If a denormalizer is registered for the class and it doesn't implement
18 * the Denormalizable interfaces, the normalizer will be used instead
20 * @author Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be>
22 interface DenormalizableInterface
25 * Denormalizes the object back from an array of scalars|arrays.
27 * It is important to understand that the denormalize() call should denormalize
28 * recursively all child objects of the implementor.
30 * @param DenormalizerInterface $denormalizer The denormalizer is given so that you
31 * can use it to denormalize objects contained within this object
32 * @param array|string|int|float|bool $data The data from which to re-create the object
33 * @param string|null $format The format is optionally given to be able to denormalize
34 * differently based on different input formats
35 * @param array $context Options for denormalizing
39 public function denormalize(DenormalizerInterface $denormalizer, $data, $format = null, array $context = array());