platform/core-api/src/com/intellij/psi/stubs/StubSerializer.java

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package com.intellij.psi.stubs;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.io.IOException;

/*
 * @author max
 */
public interface StubSerializer<T extends StubElement> extends ObjectStubSerializer<T, StubElement> {
  @Override
  @NotNull
  @NonNls
  String getExternalId();

  @Override
  void serialize(@NotNull T stub, @NotNull StubOutputStream dataStream) throws IOException;
  @NotNull
  @Override
  T deserialize(@NotNull StubInputStream dataStream, final StubElement parentStub) throws IOException;

  @Override
  void indexStub(@NotNull T stub, @NotNull IndexSink sink);
}