libkern/libkern/c++/OSUnserialize.h

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  22 /* OSUnserialize.h created by rsulack on Mon 23-Nov-1998 */
  23
  24 #ifndef _OS_OSUNSERIALIZE_H
  25 #define _OS_OSUNSERIALIZE_H
  26
  27 class OSObject;
  28 class OSString;
  29
  30 /*! @function OSUnserializeXML
  31     @abstract Recreates an OS Container object from its previously serialized OS Container class instance data.
  32     @param buffer pointer to buffer containing XML data representing the object to be recreated.
  33     @param errorString if this is a valid pointer and the XML parser finds a error in buffer, errorString contains text indicating the line number and type of error encountered.
  34     @result Pointer to the recreated object, or zero on failure. */
  35
  36 extern OSObject* OSUnserializeXML(const char *buffer, OSString **errorString = 0);
  37
  38 /* this should no longer be used */
  39 extern OSObject* OSUnserialize(const char *buffer, OSString **errorString = 0);
  40
  41 #endif /* _OS_OSUNSERIALIZE_H */