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view artifacts/src/main/java/de/intevation/artifacts/ArtifactSerializer.java @ 98:a24ab98f858d 1.0
ChangeLog: Tagging version 1.0; explaining the reason for 1.0
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author | Hans Plum <hans.plum@intevation.de> |
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date | Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:14:05 +0000 |
parents | 78263e910675 |
children | 933bbc9fc11f |
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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); } // vim:set ts=4 sw=4 si et sta sts=4 fenc=utf8 :