org.hibernate.search.indexes.serialization.spi

Interface SerializationProvider

All Superinterfaces:

Service

public interface SerializationProvider
extends Service

Provides access to a serializer and deserializer to send the necessary work load for remote backends over the wire.

Note: Providers are encouraged to offer a backward and forward compatible protocol.

Implementors are encouraged to implement a descriptive toString() method for logging purposes.

Author:

Emmanuel Bernard , Hardy Ferentschik

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Deserializer	getDeserializer() This method will be invoked when any thread needs a Deserializer: implementors of this Service can return the same instance multiple times if the Deserializer implementation is threadsafe.
Serializer	getSerializer() This method will be invoked when any thread needs a Serializer: implementors of this Service can return the same instance multiple times if the Serializer implementation is threadsafe.

Method Detail

getSerializer

Serializer getSerializer()

This method will be invoked when any thread needs a Serializer: implementors of this Service can return the same instance multiple times if the Serializer implementation is threadsafe. In all other cases return a new instance. An obtained Serializer should not be shared across threads.

Returns:

the initialized Serializer ready for usage

getDeserializer

Deserializer getDeserializer()

This method will be invoked when any thread needs a Deserializer: implementors of this Service can return the same instance multiple times if the Deserializer implementation is threadsafe. In all other cases return a new instance. An obtained Deserializer should not be shared across threads.

Returns:

the initialized Deserializer ready for usage