BuildCacheEntryWriter.java

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package org.gradle.caching;

import org.gradle.api.Incubating;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Writer to serialize a build cache entry.
 *
 * @since 3.3
 */
@Incubating
public interface BuildCacheEntryWriter {
    /**
     * Writes a build cache entry to the given stream.
     *
     * @param output output stream to write build cache entry to
     * @throws IOException when an I/O error occurs when writing the cache entry to the given output stream
     */
    void writeTo(OutputStream output) throws IOException;
}