Madan Jampani | c9ed9be | 2014-10-02 16:13:11 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | package org.onlab.netty; |
Madan Jampani | e4ff21b | 2014-10-02 15:17:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | |
| 3 | /** |
| 4 | * Interface for encoding/decoding message payloads. |
| 5 | */ |
| 6 | public interface Serializer { |
| 7 | |
| 8 | /** |
| 9 | * Decodes the specified byte array to a POJO. |
| 10 | * |
| 11 | * @param data byte array. |
| 12 | * @return POJO |
| 13 | */ |
| 14 | Object decode(byte[] data); |
| 15 | |
| 16 | /** |
| 17 | * Encodes the specified POJO into a byte array. |
| 18 | * |
| 19 | * @param data POJO to be encoded |
| 20 | * @return byte array. |
| 21 | */ |
| 22 | byte[] encode(Object message); |
| 23 | |
| 24 | } |