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package com.cedarsoft.utils.serialization;

import com.cedarsoft.lookup.Lookup;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Serializer
 *
 * @param  the type
 */
public interface ExtendedSerializer extends Serializer {
  /**
   * Serializes the given object
   *
   * @param object the object
   * @return the serialized object
   *
   * @throws IOException
   */
  @NotNull
  byte[] serialize( @NotNull T object ) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Serializes the object to the output stream
   *
   * @param object the object
   * @param out    the out stream
   * @throws IOException
   */
  void serialize( @NotNull T object, @NotNull OutputStream out ) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Deserializes the object
   *
   * @param in the input stream
   * @return the deserialized object
   *
   * @throws IOException
   */
  @NotNull
  T deserialize( @NotNull InputStream in ) throws IOException;
}