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Swirlds is a software platform designed to build fully-distributed applications that harness the power of the cloud without servers. Now you can develop applications with fairness in decision making, speed, trust and reliability, at a fraction of the cost of traditional server-based platforms.
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package com.swirlds.common.io;
import com.swirlds.common.constructable.RuntimeConstructable;
/**
* An object implementing this interface will have a way of serializing and deserializing itself. This
* serialization must deterministically generate the same output bytes every time. If the bytes generated
* by the serialization algorithm change due to code changes then then this must be captured via a protocol
* version increase. SerializableDet objects are required to maintain the capability of deserializing objects
* serialized using old protocols.
*/
public interface SerializableDet extends RuntimeConstructable, Versioned {
/**
* Any version lower than this is not supported and will cause
* an exception to be thrown if it is attempted to be used.
*
* @return minimum supported version number
*/
default int getMinimumSupportedVersion() {
return 1;
}
}