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package com.twitter.elephantbird.mapreduce.io;

/**
 * A simple interface to serialize and deserialize objects
 */
public interface BinaryConverter {
  /* TODO : What about exceptions?
   */

  /** Returns deserialized object. Throws if deserialization fails. */
  M fromBytes(byte[] messageBuffer) throws DecodeException;
  
  byte[] toBytes(M message);
  
}