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/**
*** Copyright (c) 2016-present,
*** Jaguar0625, gimre, BloodyRookie, Tech Bureau, Corp. All rights reserved.
***
*** This file is part of Catapult.
***
*** Catapult is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
*** it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
*** the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
*** (at your option) any later version.
***
*** Catapult is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
*** but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
*** MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
*** GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
***
*** You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
*** along with Catapult. If not, see .
**/

package io.nem.symbol.catapult.builders;

/** Objects of this interface knows how to serialize a catbuffer object. */
public interface Serializer {

	/**
	 * Serializes an object to bytes.
	 *
	 * @return Serialized bytes.
	 */
	byte[] serialize();

	/**
	 * Gets the size of the object.
	 *
	 * @return Size in bytes.
	 */
	int getSize();
}