package it.cavallium.filequeue;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public interface Serializer<T> {

	default byte[] serialize(T data) throws IOException {
		try (ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
			try (DataOutputStream daos = new DataOutputStream(baos)) {
				serialize(data, daos);
				return baos.toByteArray();
			}
		}
	}

	default void serialize(T data, DataOutput output) throws IOException {
		output.write(serialize(data));
	}
}