MessageCodec

All Known Implementing Classes:

BinaryCodec, JSONMessageCodec, StandardMessageCodec, StringCodec
```
public interface MessageCodec<T>
```
A message encoding/decoding mechanism.
Both operations throw IllegalArgumentException, if conversion fails.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`T`	`decodeMessage(ByteBuffer message)`	Decodes the specified message from binary.
`ByteBuffer`	`encodeMessage(T message)`	Encodes the specified message into binary.

- Method Detail
  - encodeMessage
```
@Nullable
ByteBuffer encodeMessage(@Nullable
                         T message)
```
    Encodes the specified message into binary.
    
    Parameters:
    
    message - the T message, possibly null.
    
    Returns:
    
    a ByteBuffer containing the encoding between position 0 and the current position, or null, if message is null.
  - decodeMessage
```
@Nullable
T decodeMessage(@Nullable
                ByteBuffer message)
```
    Decodes the specified message from binary.
    Warning: The ByteBuffer is "direct" and it won't be valid beyond this call. Storing the ByteBuffer and using it later and will lead to a java.nio.BufferUnderflowException. If you want to retain the data you'll need to copy it.
    
    Parameters:
    
    message - the ByteBuffer message, possibly null.
    
    Returns:
    
    a T value representation of the bytes between the given buffer's current position and its limit, or null, if message is null.