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package org.jruby.runtime;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.jruby.Ruby;
import org.jruby.RubyClass;
import org.jruby.runtime.marshal.MarshalStream;
import org.jruby.runtime.marshal.UnmarshalStream;

Author:
headius/**
 *
 * @author headius
 */
public interface ObjectMarshal<T> {
    public static final ObjectMarshal NOT_MARSHALABLE_MARSHAL = new ObjectMarshal() {
        public void marshalTo(Ruby runtime, Object obj, RubyClass type, MarshalStream marshalStream) {
            throw runtime.newTypeError("no marshal_dump is defined for class " + type.getName());
        }

        public Object unmarshalFrom(Ruby runtime, RubyClass type, UnmarshalStream unmarshalStream) {
            throw runtime.newTypeError("no marshal_load is defined for class " + type.getName());
        }
    };
    
    void marshalTo(Ruby runtime, T obj, RubyClass type, MarshalStream marshalStream) throws IOException;
    T unmarshalFrom(Ruby runtime, RubyClass type, UnmarshalStream unmarshalStream) throws IOException;
}