content: /*
   * Copyright (C) 2020 ActiveJ LLC.
   *
   * 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 io.activej.serializer;
  
  /**
   * Represents a serializer which encodes and decodes &lt;T&gt; values to byte arrays
   */
  public interface BinarySerializer<T> {
  	default int encode(byte[] array, int pos, T item) {
  		BinaryOutput out = new BinaryOutput(array, pos);
  		encode(out, item);
  		return out.pos();
  	}
  
  	default T decode(byte[] array, int pos) throws CorruptedDataException {
  		return decode(new BinaryInput(array, pos));
  	}
  
  	void encode(BinaryOutput out, T item);
  
  	T decode(BinaryInput in) throws CorruptedDataException;
  }
  