expand interface

actually the main methods I am looking for is hasDecoder() and getEncoder() to be able to check if there is a Decoder to decode the Request body as well as if the encoder implements the TemplatingAwareInterface

src/Symfony/Component/Serializer/SerializerInterface.php

@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 
 namespace Symfony\Component\Serializer;
 
-use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\EncoderInterface;
 use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\NormalizerInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\EncoderInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\DecoderInterface;
+use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\NormalizationAwareInterface;
 
 /*
  * This file is part of the Symfony framework.
@@ -80,4 +82,65 @@ interface SerializerInterface
      * @api
      */
     function decode($data, $format);
+
+    /**
+     * Normalizes an object into a set of arrays/scalars
+     *
+     * @param object $object object to normalize
+     * @param string $format format name, present to give the option to normalizers to act differently based on formats
+     * @return array|scalar
+     */
+    function normalizeObject($object, $format = null);
+
+    /**
+     * Denormalizes data back into an object of the given class
+     *
+     * @param mixed $data data to restore
+     * @param string $class the expected class to instantiate
+     * @param string $format format name, present to give the option to normalizers to act differently based on formats
+     * @return object
+     */
+    function denormalizeObject($data, $class, $format = null);
+
+    /**
+     * @param NormalizerInterface $normalizer
+     */
+    function addNormalizer(NormalizerInterface $normalizer);
+
+    /**
+     * @param NormalizerInterface $normalizer
+     */
+    function removeNormalizer(NormalizerInterface $normalizer);
+
+    /**
+     * @param string           $format  format name
+     * @param EncoderInterface $encoder
+     */
+    function setEncoder($format, EncoderInterface $encoder);
+
+    /**
+     * @return EncoderInterface
+     */
+    function getEncoder($format);
+
+    /**
+     * Checks whether the serializer has an encoder registered for the given format
+     *
+     * @param string $format format name
+     * @return Boolean
+     */
+    function hasEncoder($format);
+
+    /**
+     * Checks whether the serializer has a decoder registered for the given format
+     *
+     * @param string $format format name
+     * @return Boolean
+     */
+    function hasDecoder($format);
+
+    /**
+     * @param string $format format name
+     */
+    function removeEncoder($format);
 }