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package org.apache.datasketches.tuple;
import org.apache.datasketches.memory.Memory;
/**
* Interface for deserializing user-defined Summary
* @param <S> type of Summary
*/
public interface SummaryDeserializer<S extends Summary> {
/**
* This is to create an instance of a Summary given a serialized representation.
* The user may assume that the start of the given Memory is the correct place to start
* deserializing. However, the user must be able to determine the number of bytes required to
* deserialize the summary as the capacity of the given Memory may
* include multiple such summaries and may be much larger than required for a single summary.
* @param mem Memory object with serialized representation of a Summary
* @return DeserializedResult object, which contains a Summary object and number of bytes read
* from the Memory
*/
public DeserializeResult<S> heapifySummary(Memory mem);
}