// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
 
namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Formatters.Xml;
 
/// <summary>
/// Defines an interface for wrapping objects for serialization or deserialization into xml.
/// </summary>
public interface IWrapperProvider
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the wrapping type.
    /// </summary>
    Type WrappingType { get; }
 
    /// <summary>
    /// Wraps the given object to the wrapping type provided by <see cref="WrappingType"/>.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="original">The original non-wrapped object.</param>
    /// <returns>Returns a wrapped object.</returns>
    object? Wrap(object? original);
}