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  package org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.persistence;
  
  import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.ActiveMQBuffer;
  
  public interface Persister<T extends Object> {
  
     /**
      * This is to be used to store the protocol-id on Messages. Messages are stored on their bare format. The protocol
      * manager will be responsible to code or decode messages. The caveat here is that the first short-sized bytes need
      * to be this constant.
      */
     byte getID();
  
     int getEncodeSize(T record);
  
     void encode(ActiveMQBuffer buffer, T record);
  
     T decode(ActiveMQBuffer buffer, T record, CoreMessageObjectPools pool);
  
  }
  