hazelcast-master/hazelcast/src/main/java/com/hazelcast/nio/serialization/ByteArraySerializer.java
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package com.hazelcast.nio.serialization;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * For sample usage custom serialization and other way of custom serialization
 * see {@link com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.StreamSerializer}.
 *
 *  Note that read and write methods should be compatible
 *
 * @param <T> type of serialized object
 */
public interface ByteArraySerializer<T> extends Serializer {

    /**
     * Converts given object to byte array
     *
     * @param object that will be serialized
     * @return byte array that object is serialized into
     * @throws IOException in case of any exceptional case
     */
    byte[] write(T object) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Converts given byte array to object
     *
     * @param buffer that object will be read from
     * @return deserialized object
     * @throws IOException in case of any exceptional case
     */
    T read(byte[] buffer) throws IOException;
}
