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<?php
/*
* This file is part of the Symfony package.
*
* (c) Fabien Potencier <fabien@symfony.com>
*
* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*/
namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer;
/**
* Defines the most basic interface a class must implement to be normalizable
*
* If a normalizer is registered for the class and it doesn't implement
* the Normalizable interfaces, the normalizer will be used instead
*
* @author Jordi Boggiano <j.boggiano@seld.be>
*/
interface NormalizableInterface
{
/**
* Normalizes the object into an array of scalars|arrays.
*
* It is important to understand that the normalize() call should normalize
* recursively all child objects of the implementor.
*
* @param NormalizerInterface $normalizer The normalizer is given so that you
* can use it to normalize objects contained within this object.
* @param string|null $format The format is optionally given to be able to normalize differently
* based on different output formats.
* @param array $context Options for normalizing this object
*
* @return array|scalar
*/
public function normalize(NormalizerInterface $normalizer, $format = null, array $context = array());
}
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