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Enables conversion of Apache Avro object into popular data formats: JSON, XML, etc

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package com.vladkrava.converter.serialization;

/**
 * Provides low level interface for serialization from object of a generic type into the byte array.
 *
 * @author Vlad Krava - [email protected]
 * @since 0.1-SNAPSHOT
 */
public interface Serializer {

    /**
     * Object serialization
     *
     * @param data - source of the data
     * @return byte[] - serialized object
     * @throws DataSerializationException - signals that some exception of some sort has occurred
     *                                    during the data serialization
     */
    byte[] serialize(T data) throws DataSerializationException;
}