j4cups.protocol

Interface Binary

All Known Implementing Classes:

Attribute, AttributeGroup

public interface Binary

The Interface Binary describes objects which supports a binary presentation of the object. Originally this interface was introduced to reduce duplicate code.

Since:

0.2 (18.02.2018)

Author:

oboehm

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default byte[]	toByteArray() Converts the object to its binary presentation
void	writeBinaryTo(java.io.OutputStream ostream) Writes the binary presentation to an output stream.

Method Detail

toByteArray

default byte[] toByteArray()

Converts the object to its binary presentation

Returns:

byte array

writeBinaryTo

void writeBinaryTo(java.io.OutputStream ostream)
            throws java.io.IOException

Writes the binary presentation to an output stream.

Parameters:

ostream - an output stream

Throws:

java.io.IOException - in case of I/O problems