Interface Decoder

  • All Known Subinterfaces:
    BinaryDecoder
    All Known Implementing Classes:
    Base64, BaseNCodec

    @Deprecated
    public interface Decoder
    Deprecated.
    This interface is unused and will be removed in Tomcat 9
    Provides the highest level of abstraction for Decoders.

    This is the sister interface of Encoder. All Decoders implement this common generic interface. Allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Decoder implementation in the codec package.

    One of the two interfaces at the center of the codec package.

    • Method Detail

      • decode

        java.lang.Object decode​(java.lang.Object source)
                         throws DecoderException
        Deprecated.
        Decodes an "encoded" Object and returns a "decoded" Object. Note that the implementation of this interface will try to cast the Object parameter to the specific type expected by a particular Decoder implementation. If a ClassCastException occurs this decode method will throw a DecoderException.
        Parameters:
        source - the object to decode
        Returns:
        a 'decoded" object
        Throws:
        DecoderException - a decoder exception can be thrown for any number of reasons. Some good candidates are that the parameter passed to this method is null, a param cannot be cast to the appropriate type for a specific encoder.