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+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.codec;
+
+import org.apache.mina.common.IoSession;
+import org.apache.mina.filter.codec.ProtocolEncoder;
+import org.apache.mina.filter.codec.ProtocolEncoderOutput;
+
+import org.apache.qpid.framing.AMQDataBlockEncoder;
+
+/**
+ * AMQEncoder delegates encoding of AMQP to a data encoder.
+ *
+ * <p/><table id="crc"><caption>CRC Card</caption>
+ * <tr><th> Responsibilities <th> Collaborations
+ * <tr><td> Delegate AMQP encoding. <td> {@link AMQDataBlockEncoder}
+ * </table>
+ *
+ * @todo This class just delegates to another, so seems to be pointless. Unless it is going to handle some
+ *       responsibilities in the future, then drop it.
+ */
+public class AMQEncoder implements ProtocolEncoder
+{
+    /** The data encoder that is delegated to. */
+    private AMQDataBlockEncoder _dataBlockEncoder = new AMQDataBlockEncoder();
+
+    /**
+     * Encodes AMQP.
+     *
+     * @param session The Mina session.
+     * @param message The data object to encode.
+     * @param out     The Mina writer to output the raw byte data to.
+     *
+     * @throws Exception If the data cannot be encoded for any reason.
+     */
+    public void encode(IoSession session, Object message, ProtocolEncoderOutput out) throws Exception
+    {
+        _dataBlockEncoder.encode(session, message, out);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Does nothing. Called by Mina to allow this to clean up resources when it is no longer needed.
+     *
+     * @param session The Mina session.
+     */
+    public void dispose(IoSession session)
+    { }
+}