IMessagePackSingleObjectSerializer.cs

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using System;

namespace MsgPack.Serialization
{
	/// <summary>
	///		Defines non-generic message pack serializer interface for byte array which contains a single object.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IMessagePackSingleObjectSerializer : IMessagePackSerializer
	{

		/// <summary>
		///		Serialize specified object to the array of <see cref="Byte"/>.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="objectTree">Object to be serialized.</param>
		/// <returns>An array of <see cref="Byte"/> which stores serialized value.</returns>
		/// <exception cref="System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException">
		///		<paramref name="objectTree"/> is not serializable etc.
		/// </exception>
		byte[] PackSingleObject( object objectTree );

		/// <summary>
		///		Deserialize a single object from the array of <see cref="Byte"/> which contains a serialized object.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="buffer">An array of <see cref="Byte"/> serialized value to be stored.</param>
		/// <returns>A bytes of serialized binary.</returns>
		/// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException">
		///		<paramref name="buffer"/> is <c>null</c>.
		/// </exception>
		/// <exception cref="System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException">
		///		Failed to deserialize object due to invalid unpacker state, stream content, or so.
		/// </exception>
		/// <exception cref="MessageTypeException">
		///		Failed to deserialize object due to invalid unpacker state, stream content, or so.
		/// </exception>
		/// <exception cref="InvalidMessagePackStreamException">
		///		Failed to deserialize object due to invalid unpacker state, stream content, or so.
		/// </exception>
		/// <remarks>
		///		<para>
		///			This method assumes that <paramref name="buffer"/> contains single serialized object dedicatedly,
		///			so this method does not return any information related to actual consumed bytes.
		///		</para>
		///		<para>
		///			This method is a counter part of <see cref="PackSingleObject"/>.
		///		</para>
		/// </remarks>	
		object UnpackSingleObject( byte[] buffer );
	}
}