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package cz.msebera.android.httpclient.client.cache;

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

/**
 * Used by some {@link HttpCacheStorage} implementations to serialize
 * {@link HttpCacheEntry} instances to a byte representation before
 * storage.
 */
public interface HttpCacheEntrySerializer {

    /**
     * Serializes the given entry to a byte representation on the
     * given {@link OutputStream}.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    void writeTo(HttpCacheEntry entry, OutputStream os) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Deserializes a byte representation of a cache entry by reading
     * from the given {@link InputStream}.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    HttpCacheEntry readFrom(InputStream is) throws IOException;

}