> "that the Serializer interface encapsulates." -> "what the Serializer > interface encapsulates." > > As you stated earlier, the Serializer is not supposed to perform > transformations and such, just create object instances based on the source. > Chris's suggestions might go beyond what the Serializer contract describes.
I assume you are talking about BXMLSerializer specifically, rather than the Serializer interface? The Serializer contract is simply: - Given an input stream, return an object - Given an object and an output stream, write the object BXMLSerializer specifically returns the object represented by the root element of the BXML document. Other serializers obviously deserialize objects via different means, but they all return a single object. Serializers that need to return multiple objects can simply return a collection. For example, JSONSerializer returns a List when it reads "[0, 1, 2]", and BXMLSerializer will return an ArrayList if the root element of the document is <ArrayList>.
