/* * 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.cassandra.io; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataInputPlus; import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataOutputPlus; public interface ISerializer<T> { /** * Serialize the specified type into the specified DataOutput instance. * * * @param t type that needs to be serialized * @param out DataOutput into which serialization needs to happen. * @throws java.io.IOException */ public void serialize(T t, DataOutputPlus out) throws IOException; /** * Deserialize from the specified DataInput instance. * @param in DataInput from which deserialization needs to happen. * @throws IOException * @return the type that was deserialized */ public T deserialize(DataInputPlus in) throws IOException; public long serializedSize(T t); public default void skip(DataInputPlus in) throws IOException { deserialize(in); } }