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package com.amazonaws.mobileconnectors.lambdainvoker;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * An interface for databinding between POJO and byte array.
 */
public interface LambdaDataBinder {

    /**
     * Converts an encoded byte array into a POJO.
     *
     * @param content an encoded content in bytes
     * @param clazz class to be deserialized into
     * @param <T> the type of the class
     * @return a POJO
     */
    <T> T deserialize(@Nullable byte[] content, @NonNull Class<T> clazz);

    /**
     * Serializes an object into encoded byte array.
     *
     * @param object object to be serialized
     * @return a byte array
     */
    byte[] serialize(@Nullable Object object);
}