001/* 002 * Trident - A Multithreaded Server Alternative 003 * Copyright 2014 The TridentSDK Team 004 * 005 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 006 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 007 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 018package net.tridentsdk.server.data; 019 020import io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf; 021 022/** 023 * A metadata abstraction that allows the data to be written to provided {@link io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf} 024 * 025 * @author The TridentSDK Team 026 */ 027public interface Writable { 028 /** 029 * Writes the data contained by the current implementation into serialized form in the provided {@link 030 * io.netty.buffer.ByteBuf} 031 * 032 * <p>Check the implementation source to see serialization spec</p> 033 * 034 * @param buf the buffer to toPacket the serialized form to 035 */ 036 void write(ByteBuf buf); 037}