Definition of "deserialize" [deserialize]

• (computing) To parse (serialized data) so as to reconstruct the original object. (verb)

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• "To deserialize an xml serialized object you created you simply call the deserialize method passing it the stream that reads from the xml document."
• "I have a deep data structure and I just want to be able to deserialize this from a file."
• "When the formatters were serializing an object graph, they'd search in their "surrogate chain" to see if any surrogate was present to deal with each type in the graph; if this was the case, then it would use the surrogate to serialize / deserialize the objects instead of the object itself."