001/* 002 * (C) Copyright 2018 Nuxeo SA (http://nuxeo.com/) and others. 003 * 004 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 007 * 008 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 009 * 010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 014 * limitations under the License. 015 * 016 * Contributors: 017 * bdelbosc 018 */ 019package org.nuxeo.lib.stream.codec; 020 021/** 022 * Convert an object to/from byte array. The implementation should be thread safe. 023 * 024 * @since 10.2 025 */ 026public interface Codec<T> { 027 028 /** 029 * Returns the codec name 030 */ 031 String getName(); 032 033 /** 034 * Encodes the object returns a byte array representation. 035 */ 036 byte[] encode(T object); 037 038 /** 039 * Decodes the byte array returns an object. 040 * 041 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if data are invalid. 042 */ 043 T decode(byte[] data); 044}