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package org.apache.usergrid.corepersistence.pipeline.cursor;


import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;


/**
 * Interface for cursor serialization
 */
public interface CursorSerializer<T> {

    /**
     * convert from a JsonNode to a cursor of type T
     */
    T fromJsonNode( final JsonNode node, final ObjectMapper objectMapper );


    /**
     * Convert the cursor to a jsonNode
     */
    JsonNode toNode( final ObjectMapper objectMapper, final T value );
}