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package org.codehaus.groovy.transform.stc;
import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode;
/**
* A signature codec is responsible for encoding and decoding of inferred returned types
* as stored in bytecode. The signature must contain an appropriate version number so
* that future versions of Groovy remain capable of decoding previous versions.
*
* @author Cedric Champeau
*/
public interface SignatureCodec {
String encode(ClassNode node);
ClassNode decode(String signature);
}