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*
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*
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*
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package com.hazelcast.nio.serialization;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* For sample usage custom serialization and other way of custom serialization
* see {@link com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.StreamSerializer}.
*
* Note that read and write methods should be compatible
*
* @param <T> type of serialized object
*/
public interface ByteArraySerializer<T> extends Serializer {
/**
* Converts given object to byte array
*
* @param object that will be serialized
* @return byte array that object is serialized into
* @throws IOException
*/
byte[] write(T object) throws IOException;
/**
* Converts given byte array to object
*
* @param buffer that object will be read from
* @return deserialized object
* @throws IOException
*/
T read(byte[] buffer) throws IOException;
}