ewe.util
Interface ByteEncodable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BigDecimal, BigInteger, Decimal, mImage, MPN, RemoteCall, RSAKey

public interface ByteEncodable

A ByteEncodable object is one that can encode its data as a sequence of bytes.

Method Summary

int	encodeBytes(ByteArray dest) This requests the Object to encode itself as a stream of bytes which is appended to the destination ByteArray.

Method Detail

encodeBytes

public int encodeBytes(ByteArray dest)

This requests the Object to encode itself as a stream of bytes which is appended to the destination ByteArray. If the destination ByteArray is null, then the object should report how many bytes would be used if the object was encoded.

Parameters:

dest - The destination ByteArray, or null to determine the number of bytes needed to encode.

Returns:

The number of bytes appended to the ByteArray or the number of bytes needed to encode.