Provider (Payload 1.1.0 API)

```
public interface Provider
```
A Provider is an abstraction of the underlying mechanism that serializes and deserializes data.
It should be extended by clients of the library who wish to support additional (custom) providers.

Author:

Juliano Boesel Mohr

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`<T> T`	`deserialize(String raw, Class<T> type)`	deserializes the specified media type representation into an object of the specified class.
`String`	`serialize(Object object)`	Serializes the specified object into its equivalent media type representation.

- Method Detail
  - serialize
```
String serialize(Object object)
```
    Serializes the specified object into its equivalent media type representation.
    
    Parameters:
    
    object - the object for which a representation is to be created
    
    Returns:
    
    representation of object
  - deserialize
```
<T> T deserialize(String raw,
                  Class<T> type)
```
    deserializes the specified media type representation into an object of the specified class.
    
    Type Parameters:
    
    T - the type of the desired object
    
    Parameters:
    
    raw - the string from which the object is to be deserialized
    
    type - the class of T
    
    Returns:
    
    an object of type T from the string