geode-serialization/src/main/java/org/apache/geode/internal/serialization/SerializationContext.java

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package org.apache.geode.internal.serialization;

/**
 * A SerializationContext is passed to the toData() method of a DataSerializableFixedID
 * implementation. It can be used to obtain an ObjectSerializer and determine the
 * Geode Version of the destination of the data in cases where the SerializationVersions
 * interface is not being used to handle backward-compatibility issues. For instance,
 * you might decide to change a toData() method to check on the destination version
 * and decide to omit a field that you've added in a more recent version of Geode.
 */
public interface SerializationContext {

  /** return the version of the source/destination of this serializer */
  KnownVersion getSerializationVersion();

  /** return the serializer */
  ObjectSerializer getSerializer();

}