/*
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 */
package org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.codec.gson;

import com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.data.util.codec.TypeAwareCodec;

/**
 * A codec capable of performing normalized value conversion with a {@link JsonWriter}.
 *
 * @param <T> Normalized value type
 */
public sealed interface JSONCodec<T> extends TypeAwareCodec<T, Object, JsonWriter>
        permits AbstractJSONCodec, EmptyJSONCodec, IdentityrefJSONCodec, NullJSONCodec, UnionJSONCodec,
                // FIXME: rename this guy
                JSONInstanceIdentifierCodec {
    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}.
     *
     * @throws IOException if the write fails
     */
    @Override
    void writeValue(JsonWriter ctx, T value) throws IOException;
}