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package org.jboss.remoting.marshal;
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import java.io.IOException;
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import java.io.InputStream;
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import java.io.Serializable;
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* Takes a marshalled byte array and converts to a Java data object.
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* @author <a href="mailto:tom@jboss.org">Tom Elrod</a>
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public interface UnMarshaller extends Serializable
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* Will read from the inputstream and converty contents to java Object.
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* @param inputStream stream to read data from to do conversion.
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* @param metadata can be any transport specific metadata (such as headers from http transport).
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* This can be null, depending on if transport supports metadata.
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* @throws IOException all specific i/o exceptions need to be thrown as this.
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* @throws ClassNotFoundException will be thrown if during the unmarshalling process can not find
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* a specific class within classloader.
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Object read(InputStream inputStream, Map metadata) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException;
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* Set the class loader to use for unmarhsalling. This may be needed when need to have access to
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* class definitions that are not part of this unmarshaller's parent classloader (especially
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* when doing remote classloading).
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void setClassLoader(ClassLoader classloader);
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UnMarshaller cloneUnMarshaller() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
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