/*
Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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*/

package runtime

// Decoder defines methods for deserializing API objects into a given type
type Decoder interface {
	Decode(data []byte) (Object, error)
	DecodeInto(data []byte, obj Object) error
}

// Encoder defines methods for serializing API objects into bytes
type Encoder interface {
	Encode(obj Object) (data []byte, err error)
}

// Codec defines methods for serializing and deserializing API objects.
type Codec interface {
	Decoder
	Encoder
}

// ResourceVersioner provides methods for setting and retrieving
// the resource version from an API object.
type ResourceVersioner interface {
	SetResourceVersion(obj Object, version string) error
	ResourceVersion(obj Object) (string, error)
}

// SelfLinker provides methods for setting and retrieving the SelfLink field of an API object.
type SelfLinker interface {
	SetSelfLink(obj Object, selfLink string) error
	SelfLink(obj Object) (string, error)

	// Knowing ID is sometimes necssary to use a SelfLinker.
	ID(obj Object) (string, error)
}

// All api types must support the Object interface. It's deliberately tiny so that this is not an onerous
// burden. Implement it with a pointer reciever; this will allow us to use the go compiler to check the
// one thing about our objects that it's capable of checking for us.
type Object interface {
	// This function is used only to enforce membership. It's never called.
	// TODO: Consider mass rename in the future to make it do something useful.
	IsAnAPIObject()
}