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 * Copyright 2014 Ruediger Moeller.
 *
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package org.nustaq.serialization;

/**
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 * User: ruedi
 * Date: 11.11.12
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public abstract class FSTBasicObjectSerializer implements FSTCrossPlatformSerialzer {

    protected FSTBasicObjectSerializer() {
    }

    @Override
    public boolean willHandleClass(Class cl) {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void readObject(FSTObjectInput in, Object toRead, FSTClazzInfo clzInfo, FSTClazzInfo.FSTFieldInfo referencedBy) throws Exception {
    }

    /**
     * @return true if FST can skip a search for same instances in the serialized ObjectGraph. This speeds up reading and writing and makes
     *         sense for short immutable such as Integer, Short, Character, Date, .. . For those classes it is more expensive (CPU, size) to do a lookup than to just
     *         write the Object twice in case.
     */
    @Override
    public boolean alwaysCopy() {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public Object instantiate(Class objectClass, FSTObjectInput in, FSTClazzInfo serializationInfo, FSTClazzInfo.FSTFieldInfo referencee, int streamPosition) throws Exception {
        return null;
    }

    public boolean writeTupleEnd() {
        return true;
    }


}