SerializationStrategy (Obsidian Scheduler - Embedded API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultSerializationStrategy, JsonSerializationStrategy
```
public interface SerializationStrategy
```
A SerializationStrategy is used to convert job results into a form that can be stored as a string and retrieved.
See SerializationFactory and the default implementations, DefaultSerializationStrategy and JsonSerializationStrategy.

Since:

4.4

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<T> T`	`deserialize(java.lang.Class<T> clazz, java.lang.String value)`	Reconstructs the object from its string representation, which was created by `serialize(Object)`.
`java.lang.String`	`serialize(java.lang.Object obj)`	Converts the object to its string representation which can be supplied to `deserialize(Class, String)` to reconstruct the object.
`boolean`	`supports(java.lang.Class<?> clazz)`	Does this strategy support the specified type? Generic implementations may simply always return true.

- Method Detail
  - supports
```
boolean supports(java.lang.Class<?> clazz)
```
    Does this strategy support the specified type? Generic implementations may simply always return true.
    
    Returns:
    
    whether this strategy supports serializing and deserializing the type.
  - serialize
```
java.lang.String serialize(java.lang.Object obj)
                    throws java.lang.Exception
```
    Converts the object to its string representation which can be supplied to deserialize(Class, String) to reconstruct the object.
    
    Parameters:
    
    obj - (not null)
    
    Returns:
    
    string representation of the object
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception - any failure to serialize
  - deserialize
```
<T> T deserialize(java.lang.Class<T> clazz,
                  java.lang.String value)
           throws java.lang.Exception
```
    Reconstructs the object from its string representation, which was created by serialize(Object).
    
    Parameters:
    
    clazz - (not null) type of object
    
    value - (not null) string representation
    
    Returns:
    
    the reconstructed object
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.Exception - any failure to deserialize