Serializer.java

/*
 * 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
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 */
package com.facebook.util.serialization;


import java.io.DataOutput;

/**
 * interface that takes an instance of T and typically will end up with a stream of bytes being
 * produced, depending on what DataInput is backed by.Implementations are often nested static classes
 * of Class\<T\> in order to have access to private data
 */

public interface Serializer<T> {
  public void serialize(T value, DataOutput out) throws SerDeException;
}