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package org.apache.camel.component.google.pubsub.serializer;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * An abstraction to customize how the GooglePubsubProducer serializes non String & byte[] message body payloads.
 */
public interface GooglePubsubSerializer {

    /**
     * Serializes an object payload to a byte array.
     *
     * @param  payload     The payload to serialize
     * @return             The serialized payload as a byte array
     * @throws IOException If the serialization process encountered errors
     */
    byte[] serialize(Object payload) throws IOException;
}
