Formatter (WildFly: Clustering marshalling SPI 30.0.0.Beta1 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

BinaryFormatter, DelimitedFormatter, SimpleFormatter
```
public interface Formatter<K>
```
Formats a cache key to a string representation and back again.

Author:

Paul Ferraro

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`format(K key)`	Formats the specified key to a string representation.
`Class<K>`	`getTargetClass()`	The implementation class of the target key of this format.
`K`	`parse(String value)`	Parses the key from the specified string.

- Method Detail
  - getTargetClass
```
Class<K> getTargetClass()
```
    The implementation class of the target key of this format.
    
    Returns:
    
    an implementation class
  - parse
```
K parse(String value)
```
    Parses the key from the specified string.
    
    Parameters:
    
    value - a string representation of the key
    
    Returns:
    
    the parsed key
  - format
```
String format(K key)
```
    Formats the specified key to a string representation.
    
    Parameters:
    
    key - a key to format
    
    Returns:
    
    a string representation of the specified key.