Package com.linkedin.venice.serializer

Interface RecordSerializer<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

AvroSerializer, FastAvroSerializer, MapOrderPreservingFastSerializer, MapOrderPreservingSerializer, VsonAvroGenericSerializer

public interface RecordSerializer<T>

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
byte[]	serialize(T object)
byte[]	serializeObjects(Iterable<T> objects)
byte[]	serializeObjects(Iterable<T> objects, ByteBuffer prefix)	Serialize a list of objects and put the prefix before the serialized objects.

Method Details

serialize

byte[] serialize(T object)
          throws VeniceException

Throws:

VeniceException

serializeObjects

byte[] serializeObjects(Iterable<T> objects)
                 throws VeniceException

Throws:

VeniceException

serializeObjects

byte[] serializeObjects(Iterable<T> objects,
 ByteBuffer prefix)
                 throws VeniceException

Serialize a list of objects and put the prefix before the serialized objects. This function could avoid unnecessary byte array copy when you want to serialize two different kinds of objects together. Essentially, the will be the serialized byte array of the first kind of objects.

Parameters:

objects -

prefix -

Returns:

Throws:

VeniceException