Detailed Description

NodeSerializer implementations are used to serialize Nodes into an array representation or deserialize an array representation into Nodes.

Definition at line 21 of file NodeSerializer.php.

Inheritance diagram for NodeSerializer:

Public Member Functions
	isSerializedNode ($data)

	deserializeNode ($data, Node $parent=null, $role=null)

	serializeNode ($node)

Member Function Documentation

isSerializedNode ( $data )

Check if the given data represent a serialized Node.

Parameters

$data A variable of any type

Deserialize a Node from serialized data.

Only values given in data are being set.

Parameters

$data	An array containing the serialized Node data
$parent	The parent Node (default: null)
$role	The role of the serialized Node in relation to parent (default: null)

Returns: An array with keys 'node' and 'data' where the node value is the Node instance and the data value is the remaining part of data, that is not used for deserializing the Node

serializeNode ( $node )

Serialize a Node into an array.

Parameters

$node The Node instance to serialize