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Serialization
Classes which implement the SerializableInterface expose methods related to serialization.
SerializableInterface::getBuffer() - This method returns the binary representation of the class as a Buffer.
SerializableInterface::getHex() - Returns the serialized form, but in hex encoding.
SerializableInterface::getInt() - Where the number is an unsigned integer, getInt can convert the number to a big-num decimal.
SerializableInterface::getBinary() - Returns the object serialized, as a byte string.
Objects which implement SerializableInterface usually have a serializer also capable of parsing.
Serializers expose three main methods:
fromParser(Parser $parser) - attempt to extract the structure from the provided parser
parse() - attempt to parse the data: allows hex, or Buffer's
serialize($object) - converts the object into a Buffer