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# DecodingConfigurationProviding

A protocol whose conformers provide a configuration instance to help decode types that don’t support encoding by themselves.

```
protocol DecodingConfigurationProviding
```

## Topics

### Accessing the Configuration

[`static var decodingConfiguration: Self.DecodingConfiguration`](/documentation/Foundation/DecodingConfigurationProviding/decodingConfiguration-swift.type.property)

The configuration instance that assists in decoding another type.

### Supporting Types

[`associatedtype DecodingConfiguration`](/documentation/Foundation/DecodingConfigurationProviding/DecodingConfiguration-swift.associatedtype)

## Relationships

### Conforming Types

[`SpeechAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/SpeechAttributes)

[`AppKitAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/AppKitAttributes)

[`UIKitAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/UIKitAttributes)

[`NumberFormatAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/FoundationAttributes/NumberFormatAttributes)

[`FoundationAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/FoundationAttributes)

[`AccessibilityAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/AccessibilityAttributes)

[`SwiftUIAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/SwiftUIAttributes)

[`TranslationAttributes`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScopes/TranslationAttributes)

### Inherited By

[`AttributeScope`](/documentation/Foundation/AttributeScope)

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