Changeset 1564 for trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Persistence/3.3/Interfaces/IFormat.cs

Timestamp:

04/16/09 12:40:41 (15 years ago)

Author:

epitzer

Message:

Stronger typing for formatters with the help of generics. Separate format and serial data type. (#548)

File:

• trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Persistence/3.3/Interfaces/IFormat.cs (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/sources/HeuristicLab.Persistence/3.3/Interfaces/IFormat.cs

@@ -3 +3 @@
 namespace HeuristicLab.Persistence.Interfaces {
 
+  /// <summary>
+  /// Interface of a new serialization output format. Instead of implementing this
+  /// interface, derive from FormatBase.
+  /// </summary>
   public interface IFormat {
     string Name { get; }
+    Type SerialDataType { get; }
+  }
+
+  /// <summary>
+  /// Marker interface for new serialization output format.  Instead of implementing this
+  /// interface, derive from FormatBase.
+  /// </summary>  
+  public interface IFormat<SerialDataFormat> : IFormat where SerialDataFormat : ISerialData {
   }