2 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
4 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
5 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
6 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8 package org.opendaylight.yangtools.concepts;
11 * The concept of a combined {@link Serializer} and {@link Deserializer}, which produces an object from some input.
12 * Implementations should consider subclassing {@link AbstractCodec}.
14 * @param <P> Product type
15 * @param <I> Input type
16 * @param <X> Error exception type
18 public interface Codec<P, I, X extends Exception> extends Serializer<P, I, X>, Deserializer<I, P, X> {
20 I deserialize(P input) throws X;
23 P serialize(I input) throws X;