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package org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.persistence;

import org.apache.activemq.artemis.api.core.ActiveMQBuffer;

public interface Persister<T extends Object> {


   /** This is to be used to store the protocol-id on Messages.
    *  Messages are stored on their bare format.
    *  The protocol manager will be responsible to code or decode messages.
    *  The caveat here is that the first short-sized bytes need to be this constant. */
   byte getID();

   int getEncodeSize(T record);

   void encode(ActiveMQBuffer buffer, T record);

   T decode(ActiveMQBuffer buffer, T record, CoreMessageObjectPools pool);

}
