src/main/java/org/codehaus/groovy/transform/stc/SignatureCodec.java

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package org.codehaus.groovy.transform.stc;

import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode;

/**
 * A signature codec is responsible for encoding and decoding of inferred returned types
 * as stored in bytecode. The signature must contain an appropriate version number so
 * that future versions of Groovy remain capable of decoding previous versions.
 */
public interface SignatureCodec {
    String encode(ClassNode node);

    ClassNode decode(String signature);
}