mcs/class/corlib/System.Runtime.Serialization/ISurrogateSelector.cs

   1 //
   2 // System.Runtime.Serialization.ISurrogateSelector
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   4 // Author:
   5 //   David Dawkins (david@dawkins.st)
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   7 // (C) David Dawkins
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  33 namespace System.Runtime.Serialization {
  34
  35         /// <summary>
  36         /// Creation of serialization surrogate selectors</summary>
  37         public interface ISurrogateSelector {
  38
  39                 /// <summary>
  40                 /// Insert specified selector into available surrogates</summary>
  41                 void ChainSelector( ISurrogateSelector selector );
  42
  43                 /// <summary>
  44                 /// Return next surrogate in the surrogate chain</summary>
  45                 ISurrogateSelector GetNextSelector();
  46
  47                 /// <summary>
  48                 /// Fetch the surrogate according the specified type, starting
  49                 /// the search from the surrogate selector for the specified
  50                 /// StreamingContext</summary>
  51                 /// <param name="type">Type of the object to be serialized</param>
  52                 /// <param name="context">Context for the serialization/deserialization</para,>
  53                 /// <param name="selector">Upon return, contains a reference to the selector where the returned surrogate was found</param>
  54                 /// <returns>The surrogate for the specified type and context</returns>
  55                 ISerializationSurrogate GetSurrogate(
  56                         Type type,
  57                         StreamingContext context,
  58                         out ISurrogateSelector selector
  59                 );
  60
  61         }
  62
  63 }