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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;

/**
 * Defines common encoding methods for byte array encoders.
 *
 */
public interface BinaryEncoder extends Encoder {

    /**
     * Encodes a byte array and return the encoded data as a byte array.
     *
     * @param source
     *            Data to be encoded
     * @return A byte array containing the encoded data
     * @throws EncoderException
     *             thrown if the Encoder encounters a failure condition during the encoding process.
     */
    byte[] encode(byte[] source) throws EncoderException;
}