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  package org.apache.distributedlog.metadata;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  
  /**
   * Specific config of a given implementation of DL.
   */
  public interface DLConfig {
      /**
       * Serialize the dl config into a string.
       */
      String serialize();
  
      /**
       * Deserialize the dl config from a readable stream.
       *
       * @param data
       *          bytes to desrialize dl config.
       * @throws IOException if fail to deserialize the dl config string representation.
       */
      void deserialize(byte[] data) throws IOException;
  }
  