/** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you 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 org.apache.avro.io; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.avro.Schema; /** Write data of a schema. * <p>Implemented for different in-memory data representations. */ public interface DatumWriter<D> { /** Set the schema. */ void setSchema(Schema schema); /** Write a datum. Traverse the schema, depth first, writing each leaf value * in the schema from the datum to the output. */ void write(D datum, Encoder out) throws IOException; }