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* Copyright (c) 2017 École Polytechnique de Montréal
*
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are
* made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which
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*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.tracecompass.datastore.core.interval;
import org.eclipse.tracecompass.datastore.core.serialization.ISafeByteBufferWriter;
/**
* An object that can be serialized
*
* @author Geneviève Bastien
* @since 1.1
*/
public interface ISerializableObject {
/**
* Get the size on disk in bytes of an object
*
* @return the size occupied by this segment when stored in a Segment
* History Tree (in bytes)
*/
int getSizeOnDisk();
/**
* Method to serialize an object to a safe byte buffer
*
* @param buffer
* The safe byte buffer to write to
*/
void writeSegment(ISafeByteBufferWriter buffer);
}