Objectifier

Converts values of type T into plain, format-agnostic objects (e.g. maps, lists, strings, numbers, booleans) that a generic data-binding library (such as Jackson on the JVM) can then turn into JSON, YAML, XML, or any other concrete textual representation.

This is the intermediate step a Serializer relies on: it first objectifies a value with an Objectifier, then hands the resulting plain object to a format-specific writer. Splitting the two steps means the very same object model can be rendered in any supported MimeType without duplicating the conversion logic for each format.

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