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package io.logspace.agent.shaded.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.

* * @author Apache Software Foundation * @version $Id: Encoder.java 1170351 2011-09-13 21:09:09Z ggregory $ */ 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; }




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