001/* 002 * Copyright (c) 2007-2017 Xplenty, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 003 * 004 * Project and contact information: http://www.cascading.org/ 005 * 006 * This file is part of the Cascading project. 007 * 008 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 009 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 010 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 015 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 016 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 017 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 018 * limitations under the License. 019 */ 020 021package cascading.flow.hadoop.util; 022 023import java.io.IOException; 024 025/** 026 * Class ObjectSerializer is an experimental interface for allowing custom java.lang.Object subclass serialization 027 * other than via the java.io.Serializable interface. 028 * <p/> 029 * To use, set the {@link #OBJECT_SERIALIZER_PROPERTY} value on the flow configuration. 030 */ 031public interface ObjectSerializer 032 { 033 String OBJECT_SERIALIZER_PROPERTY = "cascading.util.serializer"; 034 035 <T> byte[] serialize( T object, boolean compress ) throws IOException; 036 037 <T> T deserialize( byte[] bytes, Class<T> type, boolean decompress ) throws IOException; 038 039 <T> boolean accepts( Class<T> type ); 040 }