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package org.eclipse.tracecompass.internal.provisional.datastore.core.interval;
import org.eclipse.tracecompass.internal.provisional.datastore.core.serialization.ISafeByteBufferReader;
/**
* A factory that reads object from a byte buffer and create a new object
*
* @author Geneviève Bastien
* @param <E>
* The type of objects that will be read
*/
@FunctionalInterface
public interface IHTIntervalReader<E extends IHTInterval> {
/**
* Method to deserialize segments to disk for Segment History Tree
*
* @param buffer
* HTNode buffer to read from
* @return the Segment read from the buffer
*/
E readInterval(ISafeByteBufferReader buffer);
}