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Added interfaces for a Settings hierachy currently used for Outputs. artifacts/trunk@3408 c6561f87-3c4e-4783-a992-168aeb5c3f6f
author Ingo Weinzierl <ingo.weinzierl@intevation.de>
date Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:41:44 +0000
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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010 by Intevation GmbH
 *
 * This program is free software under the LGPL (>=v2.1)
 * Read the file LGPL.txt coming with the software for details
 * or visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ if it does not exist.
 */

package de.intevation.artifacts;

/**
 * Interface to make artifact persistent.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:sascha.teichmann@intevation.de">Sascha L. Teichmann</a>
 */
public interface ArtifactSerializer
{
    /**
     * Restores an artifact from an array of bytes.
     * @param bytes the persistent representation of the artifact.
     * @return The de-serialized artifact or null if there was an error.
     */
    Artifact fromBytes(byte [] bytes);
    /**
     * Brings an artifact to a persistent form in form of a byte array.
     * @param artifact The artifact to be serialized.
     * @return the byte array representation of the artifact or null
     * if there was an error.
     */
    byte []  toBytes(Artifact artifact);
}
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