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The Apache Commons Codec component contains encoders and decoders for various formats such as Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities. This is a port for GWT, which enables program, to use Apache Commons Codec also in the frontend compiled by the gwt compiler to java-script.

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package org.apache.commons.codec;

/**
 * Provides the highest level of abstraction for Encoders.
 * 
 * This is the sister interface of {@link Decoder}.  Every implementation of Encoder provides this
 * common generic interface which allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Encoder implementation
 * in the codec package.
 *
 * @version $Id: Encoder.java 1379145 2012-08-30 21:02:52Z tn $
 */
public interface Encoder {

    /**
     * Encodes an "Object" and returns the encoded content as an Object. The Objects here may just be
     * byte[] or Strings depending on the implementation used.
     *
     * @param source
     *            An object to encode
     * @return An "encoded" Object
     * @throws EncoderException
     *             An encoder exception is thrown if the encoder experiences a failure condition during the encoding
     *             process.
     */
    Object encode(Object source) throws EncoderException;
}