/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2014 Imperial College London
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Raul Castro Fernandez - initial API and implementation
******************************************************************************/
package uk.ac.imperial.lsds.seep.infrastructure.monitor.comm.serialization;
import java.io.InputStream;
/**
* Base interface for all metrics deserializers. Subclasses implementing this interface
* are responsible for converting/de-serializing the appropriate data representation
* from the underlying channel into a tuple.
*
* @author mrouaux
*/
public interface MetricsDeserializer<T extends InputStream> {
void initialize(T is);
MetricsTuple deserialize();
}