org.cryptimeleon.math.serialization

Interface Representable

All Known Subinterfaces:

BilinearGroup, BilinearGroupImpl, Element, EllipticCurve, EllipticCurvePoint, Field, FieldElement, Group, GroupElement, GroupElementImpl, GroupHomomorphism, GroupHomomorphismImpl, GroupImpl, HashFunction, HashIntoGroup, HashIntoGroupImpl, HashIntoStructure, Ring, RingElement, StandaloneRepresentable, Structure, WeierstrassCurve

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractEllipticCurvePoint, AffineEllipticCurvePoint, BarretoNaehrigBilinearGroup, BarretoNaehrigBilinearGroupImpl, BarretoNaehrigGroup1ElementImpl, BarretoNaehrigGroup1Impl, BarretoNaehrigGroup2ElementImpl, BarretoNaehrigGroup2Impl, BarretoNaehrigPointEncoding, BarretoNaehrigSourceGroupElementImpl, BarretoNaehrigSourceGroupImpl, BarretoNaehrigTargetGroupElementImpl, BarretoNaehrigTargetGroupImpl, BasicBilinearGroup, BasicGroup, BasicGroupElement, BasicGroupHomomorphism, BasicNamedBoolVariableExpr, BasicNamedExponentVariableExpr, BasicNamedGroupVariableExpr, BooleanElement, BooleanStructure, ConstLazyGroupElement, CountingBilinearGroup, CountingBilinearGroupImpl, CountingGroup, CountingGroupElement, CountingGroupElementImpl, CountingGroupImpl, CountingHomomorphism, CountingIsomorphismImpl, ExpLazyGroupElement, ExtensionField, ExtensionFieldElement, GroupElementVector, HashIntoBasicGroup, HashIntoCountingGroup, HashIntoCountingGroupImpl, HashIntoLazyGroup, HashIntoZn, HashIntoZnAdditiveGroup, HashIntoZp, HashResultLazyGroupElement, HomomorphismResultLazyGroupElement, IdentityIsomorphism, IntegerElement, IntegerRing, InvLazyGroupElement, LazyBilinearGroup, LazyGroup, LazyGroupElement, LazyGroupHomomorphism, NeutralLazyGroupElement, OpLazyGroupElement, PairingResultLazyGroupElement, PairingSourceGroupElement, PairingSourceGroupImpl, PairingTargetGroupElementImpl, PairingTargetGroupImpl, PolynomialRing, PolynomialRing.Polynomial, ProductGroup, ProductGroupElement, ProductRing, ProductRingElement, RandomGroupElement, RandomNonNeutralGroupElement, RingAdditiveGroupImpl, RingAdditiveGroupImpl.RingAdditiveGroupElementImpl, RingElementVector, RingGroup, RingGroup.RingGroupElement, RingGroupImpl, RingGroupImpl.RingGroupElementImpl, RingUnitGroupImpl, RingUnitGroupImpl.RingUnitGroupElementImpl, Secp256k1, Secp256k1.HashIntoSecp256k1, SHA256HashFunction, SHA512HashFunction, Sn, Sn.SnElementImpl, SupersingularBilinearGroup, SupersingularSourceGroupElementImpl, SupersingularSourceGroupImpl, SupersingularSourceHash, SupersingularTargetGroupElementImpl, SupersingularTargetGroupImpl, SupersingularTateGroupImpl, VariableOutputLengthHashFunction, Zn, Zn.ZnElement, Zp, Zp.ZpElement

public interface Representable

Common interface for all objects that can be represented (and thereby serialized) using the Representation framework. This allows us to serialize objects in an interoperable way (in contrast to Java's Serializable), e.g. to use outside of Java programs.

A special case of Representable is StandaloneRepresentable, which allows recreating the Representable through a standard interface (NOT-standalone Representables may need some specific non-standard means of recreating, e.g., Elements of Structures via structure.getElement(repr)). This also ensures that the resulting object belongs to the expected group.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Representation	getRepresentation() The representation of this object.

Method Detail

getRepresentation

Representation getRepresentation()

The representation of this object. Used for serialization. A convenient way to implement this is using @link ReprUtil

Returns:

a Representation or null if an equal object can be recreated without any information.

See Also:

Representation