/**
* Copyright 2005-2012 Akiban Technologies, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package com.persistit.encoding;
/**
* <p>
* Combines the {@link KeyCoder}, {@link KeyRenderer}, {@link ValueCoder} and
* {@link ValueRenderer} into a single interface that allows Persistit to store
* and retrieve arbitrary objects - even non-Serializable objects - without
* byte-code enhancement, without incurring the space or time overhead of Java
* serialization, or the need to modify the class to perform custom
* serialization. During initialization, an application typically associates an
* <code>ObjectCoder</code> with each the <code>Class</code> of each object that
* will be stored in or fetched from the Persistit database. The
* <code>ObjectCoder</code> implements all of the logic necessary to encode and
* decode the state of objects of that class to and from Persistit storage
* structures. Although Persistit is not designed to provide transparent
* persistence, the <code>ObjectCoder</code> interface simplifies object
* persistence code.
* </p>
*
*
* @version 1.0
*/
public interface ObjectCoder extends KeyRenderer, ValueRenderer {
}