/*
* Copyright (C) 2012 Facebook, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package com.facebook.util.serialization;
import java.io.DataInput;
/**
* interface that takes a stream of bytes wrapped in the DataInput interface (to make
* reading primitives easier), and builds a T. Implementations are often nested static classes
* of Class\<T\> in order to have access to specialized, private constructors
*
* @param <T>
*/
public interface Deserializer<T> {
public T deserialize(DataInput in) throws SerDeException;
}