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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;

/**
 * Interface for a deserializer. Throws an IOException if the serialized data is
 * incomplete or wrong.
 * */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface CacheableDeserializer<T extends Cacheable> {
  /**
   * Returns the deserialized object.
   *
   * @return T the deserialized object.
   */
  T deserialize(ByteBuffer b) throws IOException;

  /**
   * 
   * @param b
   * @param reuse true if Cacheable object can use the given buffer as its
   *          content
   * @return T the deserialized object.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  T deserialize(ByteBuffer b, boolean reuse) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Get the identifier of this deserialiser. Identifier is unique for each
   * deserializer and generated by {@link CacheableDeserializerIdManager}
   * @return identifier number of this cacheable deserializer
   */
  int getDeserialiserIdentifier();
}
