* Similarly when state needs to be applied to the derived RaftActor it will be passed an instance of the Payload class.
*/
public abstract class Payload implements Serializable {
+ @java.io.Serial
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
/**
*/
public abstract int size();
+ /**
+ * Return the estimate of serialized size of this payload when passed through serialization. The estimate needs to
+ * be reasonably accurate and should err on the side of caution and report a slightly-higher size in face of
+ * uncertainty.
+ *
+ * @return An estimate of serialized size.
+ */
+ public abstract int serializedSize();
+
/**
* Return the serialization proxy for this object.
*
* @return Serialization proxy
*/
+ @java.io.Serial
protected abstract Object writeReplace();
}