public interface Encoder
This is the sister interface of Decoder
. Every implementation of Encoder provides this
common generic interface which allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Encoder implementation
in the codec package.
Object encode(Object source) throws EncoderException
byte[]
or String
s depending on the implementation used.source
- An object to encodeEncoderException
- An encoder exception is thrown if the encoder experiences a failure condition during the encoding
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