/* Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Boundless and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Gabriel Roldan (Boundless) - initial implementation
*/
package org.locationtech.geogig.storage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import org.locationtech.geogig.api.RevObject;
/**
* Provides an interface for writing objects to a given output stream.
*/
public interface ObjectWriter<T extends RevObject> {
/**
* Writes the object to the given output stream. Does not close the output stream, as it doesn't
* belong to this object. The calling code is responsible of the outputstream life cycle.
*
* @param object the object to serialize
* @param out the stream to write to
* @throws IOException
*/
public void write(T object, OutputStream out) throws IOException;
}