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/*
 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
 *
 * 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
 *
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package com.aiwiown.face.internal.util.codec;

/**
 * Provides the highest level of abstraction for Encoders.
 * This is the sister interface of {@link Decoder}.  Every implementation of Encoder provides this common generic interface whic allows a
 * user to pass a generic Object to any Encoder implementation in the codec package.
 *
 * @author Apache Software Foundation
 * @version $Id: Encoder.java,v 1.10 2004/02/29 04:08:31 tobrien Exp $
 */
public interface Encoder {

    /**
     * Encodes an "Object" and returns the encoded content as an Object.  The Objects here may just be byte[] or
     * Strings depending on the implementation used.
     *
     * @param pObject An object ot encode
     * @return An "encoded" Object
     * @throws EncoderException an encoder exception is thrown if the encoder experiences a failure condition during the encoding process.
     */
    Object encode(Object pObject) throws EncoderException;
}