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The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.

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package org.apache.cassandra.io;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataInputPlus;
import org.apache.cassandra.io.util.DataOutputPlus;

public interface ISerializer
{
    /**
     * Serialize the specified type into the specified DataOutput instance.
     *
     *
     * @param t type that needs to be serialized
     * @param out DataOutput into which serialization needs to happen.
     * @throws java.io.IOException
     */
    public void serialize(T t, DataOutputPlus out) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Deserialize from the specified DataInput instance.
     * @param in DataInput from which deserialization needs to happen.
     * @throws IOException
     * @return the type that was deserialized
     */
    public T deserialize(DataInputPlus in) throws IOException;

    public long serializedSize(T t);

    public default void skip(DataInputPlus in) throws IOException
    {
        deserialize(in);
    }
}