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 * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 */
package org.alfresco.filesys.smb.dcerpc;

/**
 * DCE/RPC Writeable Interface
 * <p>
 * A class that implements the DCEWriteable interface can save itself to a DCE buffer.
 */
public interface DCEWriteable
{

    /**
     * Write the object state to DCE/RPC buffers.
     * <p>
     * If a list of objects is being written the strings will be written after the objects so the
     * second buffer will be specified.
     * <p>
     * If a single object is being written to the buffer the second buffer may be null or be the
     * same buffer as the main buffer.
     * 
     * @param buf DCEBuffer
     * @param strBuf DCEBuffer
     * @exception DCEBufferException
     */
    public void writeObject(DCEBuffer buf, DCEBuffer strBuf) throws DCEBufferException;
}