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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2012, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0, which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
 *
 * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
 * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the
 * Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License,
 * version 2 with the GNU Classpath Exception, which is available at
 * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
 */

package com.sun.enterprise.admin.util.cache;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import org.jvnet.hk2.annotations.Contract;

/**
 * Provides ability to convert some instance into {@code byte[]} and back.

 * Implementations of this interface are located using standard {@code ServiceLoader}
 *
 * @author mmares
 */
@Contract
public interface DataProvider {

    public boolean accept(Class clazz);

    //    public byte[] toByteArray(Object o);

    public void writeToStream(Object o, OutputStream stream) throws IOException;

    //    public Object toInstance(byte[] data, Class clazz);

    public Object toInstance(InputStream stream, Class clazz) throws IOException;

}