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| * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with |
| * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. |
| * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 |
| * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with |
| * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at |
| * |
| * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| * |
| * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software |
| * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, |
| * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. |
| * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and |
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| */ |
| |
| package java.io; |
| |
| /** |
| * Defines an interface for classes that want to be serializable, but have their |
| * own binary representation. |
| */ |
| public interface Externalizable extends Serializable { |
| /** |
| * Reads the next object from the ObjectInput <code>input</code>. |
| * |
| * @param input |
| * the ObjectInput from which the next object is read. |
| * @throws IOException |
| * if an error occurs attempting to read from {@code input}. |
| * @throws ClassNotFoundException |
| * if the class of the instance being loaded cannot be found. |
| */ |
| public void readExternal(ObjectInput input) throws IOException, |
| ClassNotFoundException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Writes the receiver to the ObjectOutput <code>output</code>. |
| * |
| * @param output |
| * the ObjectOutput to write the object to. |
| * @throws IOException |
| * if an error occurs attempting to write to {@code output}. |
| */ |
| public void writeExternal(ObjectOutput output) throws IOException; |
| } |