001package org.apache.commons.jcs3.engine.behavior; 002 003/* 004 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 005 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 006 * distributed with this work for additional information 007 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 008 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 009 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 010 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 015 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 016 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 017 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 018 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 019 * under the License. 020 */ 021 022/** 023 * This interface defines the behavior of the serialized element wrapper. 024 * <p> 025 * The value is stored as a byte array. This should allow for a variety of serialization mechanisms. 026 * </p> 027 * <p> 028 * This currently extends ICacheElement<K, V> for backward compatibility. 029 * </p> 030 */ 031public interface ICacheElementSerialized<K, V> 032 extends ICacheElement<K, V> 033{ 034 /** 035 * Gets the value attribute of the ICacheElementSerialized object. This is the value the client 036 * cached serialized by some mechanism. 037 *<p> 038 * @return The serialized value 039 */ 040 byte[] getSerializedValue(); 041}