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using System;
using System.IO;

namespace Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ.Transport
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Represents the marshalling of commands to and from an IO stream
	/// </summary>
	public interface IWireFormat
    {
		/// <summary>
		/// Marshalls the given command object onto the stream
		/// </summary>
	    void Marshal(Object o, BinaryWriter ds);

		/// <summary>
		/// Unmarshalls the next command object from the stream
		/// </summary>
        Object Unmarshal(BinaryReader dis);

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the Transport that own this WireFormat instnace.
        /// </summary>
		ITransport Transport
        {
			get;
            set;
		}

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the current version of the protocol that this WireFormat instance
        /// supports
        /// </summary>
        int Version
        {
            get;
        }
        
    }
}