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package de.tsl2.nano.cursus.effectus;

/**
 * NOT USED YET!
 * provides all informations to store/restore any object to/from byte[] stream. may be used for database blobs on instances.
 * @param  content type 
 * @author Tom
 */
public interface IStoredContent {
	/** identifer of the root object where the content belongs to */
	String getIdentifier();

	/** path that guides from the root object (given by identifier) to the content object */
	String getPath();

	/** content type description */
	String getTypeName();

	/** the serialized content */
	byte[] getContent();

	/** deserializes the content to the java object */
	T toObject();

	/** evaluates all informations of the given object and serializes it */
	void fromObject(T instance);
}