net.openhft.chronicle.bytes

Interface CommonMarshallable

All Known Subinterfaces:

BytesMarshallable, ReadBytesMarshallable, WriteBytesMarshallable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BinaryIntArrayReference, BinaryLongArrayReference

public interface CommonMarshallable

Marker for objects that can be serialised to bytes. Implementations may choose to embed type or structural metadata so that the resulting message is self describing.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default boolean	usesSelfDescribingMessage() Indicates whether the serialised form should contain enough metadata for a generic parser to understand it without prior knowledge of the concrete type.

Method Detail

usesSelfDescribingMessage

default boolean usesSelfDescribingMessage()

Indicates whether the serialised form should contain enough metadata for a generic parser to understand it without prior knowledge of the concrete type.

Returns:

true by default