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Fork of Esoteric Software's Kryo built by Nathan Sweet that replaces Minlog with slf4j as the logging facade. This contains the shaded reflectasm jar to prevent conflicts with other versions of asm.

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package com.esotericsoftware.kryo.factories;

import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo;
import com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Serializer;

/**
 * A serializer factory that allows the creation of serializers. This factory will be called when a {@link Kryo}
 * serializer discovers a new type for which no serializer is yet known. For example, when a factory is registered
 * via {@link Kryo#setDefaultSerializer(SerializerFactory)} a different serializer can be created dependent on the
 * type of a class.
 *
 * @author Rafael Winterhalter 
 */
public interface SerializerFactory {

    /**
     * Creates a new serializer
     * @param kryo The serializer instance requesting the new serializer.
     * @param type The type of the object that is to be serialized.
     * @return An implementation of a serializer that is able to serialize an object of type {@code type}.
     */
	Serializer makeSerializer (Kryo kryo, Class type);
}