Slicing out minor utils/modification created for shared logs
Change-Id: I1c5dd4bfcf147e29b7bec9662cef9a9e23b02651
diff --git a/src/main/java/net/onrc/onos/core/datastore/utils/Serializer.java b/src/main/java/net/onrc/onos/core/datastore/utils/Serializer.java
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+package net.onrc.onos.core.datastore.utils;
+
+/**
+ * Interface to serialize object into byte[].
+ *
+ * Serializer instance is expected to be functional even if the
+ * instance was shared among multiple threads.
+ */
+public interface Serializer {
+ /**
+ * Serializes a given object.
+ *
+ * @param obj the object to serialize
+ * @return binary representation of the serialized object
+ */
+ public byte[] serialize(final Object obj);
+
+ /**
+ * Deserializes a given byte array.
+ *
+ * @param bytes binary representation of an Object
+ * @return deserialized object
+ */
+ public <T> T deserialize(final byte[] bytes);
+}