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Prince Pereirac1c21d62021-04-22 08:38:15 +00001/*
2 *
3 * Copyright 2014 gRPC authors.
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15 * limitations under the License.
16 *
17 */
18
19package grpc
20
21import (
22 "google.golang.org/grpc/encoding"
23 _ "google.golang.org/grpc/encoding/proto" // to register the Codec for "proto"
24)
25
26// baseCodec contains the functionality of both Codec and encoding.Codec, but
27// omits the name/string, which vary between the two and are not needed for
28// anything besides the registry in the encoding package.
29type baseCodec interface {
30 Marshal(v interface{}) ([]byte, error)
31 Unmarshal(data []byte, v interface{}) error
32}
33
34var _ baseCodec = Codec(nil)
35var _ baseCodec = encoding.Codec(nil)
36
37// Codec defines the interface gRPC uses to encode and decode messages.
38// Note that implementations of this interface must be thread safe;
39// a Codec's methods can be called from concurrent goroutines.
40//
41// Deprecated: use encoding.Codec instead.
42type Codec interface {
43 // Marshal returns the wire format of v.
44 Marshal(v interface{}) ([]byte, error)
45 // Unmarshal parses the wire format into v.
46 Unmarshal(data []byte, v interface{}) error
47 // String returns the name of the Codec implementation. This is unused by
48 // gRPC.
49 String() string
50}