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  package org.apache.camel.component.google.pubsublite.serializer;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  
  /**
   * An abstraction to customize how the GooglePubsubProducer serializes non String & byte[] message body payloads.
   */
  public interface GooglePubsubSerializer {
  
      /**
       * Serializes an object payload to a byte array.
       *
       * @param  payload     The payload to serialize
       * @return             The serialized payload as a byte array
       * @throws IOException If the serialization process encountered errors
       */
      byte[] serialize(Object payload) throws IOException;
  }
  