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package org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.structure.io.binary;

import org.apache.tinkerpop.gremlin.structure.io.Buffer;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Represents a serializer for a given type.
 */
public interface TypeSerializer<T> {

    /**
     * Gets the {@link DataType} that is represented by the given {@link T}.
     */
    DataType getDataType();

    /**
     * Reads the type information and value from the buffer and returns an instance of T.
     */
    T read(final Buffer buffer, final GraphBinaryReader context) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Reads the value from the buffer (not the type information) and returns an instance of T.
     * <p>
     *     Implementors should throw an exception when a complex type doesn't support reading without the type
     *     information.
     * </p>
     */
    T readValue(final Buffer buffer, final GraphBinaryReader context, final boolean nullable) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Writes the type code, information and value to a buffer using the provided allocator.
     */
    void write(final T value, final Buffer buffer, final GraphBinaryWriter context) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Writes the value to a buffer, composed by the value flag and the sequence of bytes.
     */
    void writeValue(final T value, final Buffer buffer, final GraphBinaryWriter context, final boolean nullable) throws IOException;
}
