IGangliaMessageDecoder.java

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package com.bigdata.ganglia;

/**
 * Decoder interface for ganglia wire format messages.
 */
public interface IGangliaMessageDecoder {

	/**
	 * Decode a Ganglia message as received from a datagram packet.
	 * 
	 * @param data
	 *            The data.
	 * @param off
	 *            The offset of the first byte to decode.
	 * @param len
	 *            The #of bytes to decode.
	 * 
	 * @return The decoded record.
	 */
	IGangliaMessage decode(byte[] data, int off, int len);

}