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//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
// <copyright file="IMessagePartEncoder.cs" company="Outercurve Foundation">
// Copyright (c) Outercurve Foundation. All rights reserved.
// </copyright>
//-----------------------------------------------------------------------
namespace DotNetOpenAuth.Messaging.Reflection {
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Validation;
/// <summary>
/// An interface describing how various objects can be serialized and deserialized between their object and string forms.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// Implementations of this interface must include a default constructor and must be thread-safe.
/// </remarks>
public interface IMessagePartEncoder {
/// <summary>
/// Encodes the specified value.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="value">The value. Guaranteed to never be null.</param>
/// <returns>The <paramref name="value"/> in string form, ready for message transport.</returns>
string Encode(object value);
/// <summary>
/// Decodes the specified value.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="value">The string value carried by the transport. Guaranteed to never be null, although it may be empty.</param>
/// <returns>The deserialized form of the given string.</returns>
/// <exception cref="FormatException">Thrown when the string value given cannot be decoded into the required object type.</exception>
object Decode(string value);
}
}
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