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package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.job;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;

import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksException;

/**
 * The serializer/deserializer/classloader interface for job/task information such as job specifications, activity graphs and so on.
 * 
 * @author yingyib
 */
public interface IJobSerializerDeserializer {

    /**
     * Deserialize the bytes to an object
     * 
     * @param bytes
     *            the binary content of an object
     * @return the deserialized object
     * @throws HyracksException
     */
    public Object deserialize(byte[] bytes) throws HyracksException;

    /**
     * Serialize a object into bytes
     * 
     * @param object
     *            a Serializable Java object
     * @return
     *         the byte array which contains the binary content of the input object
     * @throws HyracksException
     */
    public byte[] serialize(Serializable object) throws HyracksException;

    /**
     * Load a class by its name
     * 
     * @param className
     *            the name of the class
     * @return
     * @throws HyracksException
     */
    public Class<?> loadClass(String className) throws HyracksException;

    /**
     * 
     * @param binaryURLs
     * @throws HyracksException
     */
    public void addClassPathURLs(List<URL> binaryURLs) throws HyracksException;

    public ClassLoader getClassLoader() throws HyracksException;

}