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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.
+ *
+ */
+using System;
+using System.Collections;
+
+namespace Apache.Qpid.Codec.Demux
+{
+    public interface IMessageEncoder
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Returns the set of message classes this encoder can encode.
+        /// </summary>
+        Hashtable MessageTypes
+        {
+            get;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Encodes higher-level message objects into binary or protocol-specific data.
+        /// MINA invokes {@link #encode(IoSession, Object, ProtocolEncoderOutput)}
+        /// method with message which is popped from the session write queue, and then
+        /// the encoder implementation puts encoded {@link ByteBuffer}s into
+        /// {@link ProtocolEncoderOutput}.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <exception cref="Exception">if the message violated protocol specification</exception>
+        void Encode(Object message, IProtocolEncoderOutput output);
+    }
+}
+
+