001/* 002 * Copyright (c) 2016-2017 Chris K Wensel <chris@wensel.net>. All Rights Reserved. 003 * Copyright (c) 2007-2017 Xplenty, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 004 * 005 * Project and contact information: http://www.cascading.org/ 006 * 007 * This file is part of the Cascading project. 008 * 009 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 010 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 011 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 012 * 013 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 014 * 015 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 016 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 017 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 018 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 019 * limitations under the License. 020 */ 021 022package cascading.flow.hadoop.util; 023 024import java.io.IOException; 025 026/** 027 * Class ObjectSerializer is an experimental interface for allowing custom java.lang.Object subclass serialization 028 * other than via the java.io.Serializable interface. 029 * <p> 030 * To use, set the {@link #OBJECT_SERIALIZER_PROPERTY} value on the flow configuration. 031 */ 032public interface ObjectSerializer 033 { 034 String OBJECT_SERIALIZER_PROPERTY = "cascading.util.serializer"; 035 036 <T> byte[] serialize( T object, boolean compress ) throws IOException; 037 038 <T> T deserialize( byte[] bytes, Class<T> type, boolean decompress ) throws IOException; 039 040 <T> boolean accepts( Class<T> type ); 041 }