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A service which is responsible for updating and deploying new configurations to an already-running Alluxio cluster.

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package alluxio.hub.manager.util;

import com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessageV3;

/**
 * Interface to govern that an object must be able to convert itself to a proto representation.
 *
 * The reason that we use intermediate objects instead of the proto directly is to provide thread
 * -safety which the generated proto objects do not support.
 *
 * @param  the proto type that this object can be converted to
 */
public interface ProtoConverter {

  /**
   * Converts an objects representation into a protobuf type.
   *
   * @return the object as a proto representation
   */
  T toProto();
}