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017    package org.apache.camel.spi;
018    
019    import java.io.InputStream;
020    import java.io.OutputStream;
021    
022    import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
023    
024    /**
025     * Represents a
026     * <a href="http://activemq.apache.org/camel/data-format.html">data format</a>
027     * used to marshal objects to and from streams
028     * such as Java Serialization or using JAXB2 to encode/decode objects using XML
029     * or using SOAP encoding.
030     *
031     * @version $Revision: 36321 $
032     */
033    public interface DataFormat {
034    
035        /**
036         * Marshals the object to the given Stream.
037         */
038        void marshal(Exchange exchange, Object graph, OutputStream stream) throws Exception;
039    
040        /**
041         * Unmarshals the given stream into an object.
042         */
043        Object unmarshal(Exchange exchange, InputStream stream) throws Exception;
044    }