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package org.apache.flume.serialization;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import org.apache.flume.Context;
import org.apache.flume.annotations.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.flume.annotations.InterfaceStability;
/**
* <p/>A class that is able to both serialize and deserialize events.
* <p/>Implementing this interface does not simply mean that a class has both
* serialization and deserialization capability. By implementing this
* interface, implementations guarantee that they can convert a serialized
* event back to a deserialized event, and back to a serialized event again
* without any data loss.
* <p/>That guarantee allows Flume to "replay" partial file writes and restore
* output files that may have been damaged in a system crash. At the time of
* this writing, support for this functionality is still lacking.
*/
@InterfaceAudience.LimitedPrivate("future public api")
@InterfaceStability.Unstable
public interface EventSerDe extends EventSerializer, EventDeserializer {
/**
* Knows how to construct this serde.<br/>
* <b>Note: Implementations MUST provide a public a no-arg constructor.</b>
*/
public interface Builder {
public EventSerDe build(Context context, ResettableInputStream in, OutputStream out);
}
}