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package com.google.gwtorm.protobuf;

import com.google.gwtorm.client.Column;
import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import com.google.protobuf.CodedInputStream;

/**
 * Encode and decode an arbitrary Java object as a Protobuf message.
 * <p>
 * The object must use the {@link Column} annotations to denote the fields that
 * should be encoded or decoded.
 */
public abstract class ProtobufCodec<T> {
  /** Encode the object into an immutable byte string. */
  public abstract ByteString encode(T obj);

  /** Compute the number of bytes of the encoded form of the object. */
  public abstract int sizeof(T obj);

  /** Decode a byte string into an object instance. */
  public T decode(ByteString buf) {
    return decode(buf.newCodedInput());
  }

  /** Decode a byte string into an object instance. */
  public T decode(byte[] buf) {
    return decode(CodedInputStream.newInstance(buf));
  }

  /** Decode an object by reading it from the stream. */
  protected abstract T decode(CodedInputStream in);
}