ToByteBufEncoder (Lettuce 6.3.3.BUILD-SNAPSHOT API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ByteArrayCodec, StringCodec, Utf8StringCodec
```
public interface ToByteBufEncoder<K,V>
```
Optimized encoder that encodes keys and values directly on a ByteBuf. This encoder does not allocate buffers, it just encodes data to existing buffers.
Classes implementing ToByteBufEncoder are required to implement RedisCodec as well. You should implement also the RedisCodec.encodeKey(Object) and RedisCodec.encodeValue(Object) methods to ensure compatibility for users that access the RedisCodec API only.

Since:

4.3

Author:

Mark Paluch, shikharid

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`encodeKey(K key, ByteBuf target)`	Encode the key for output to redis.
`void`	`encodeValue(V value, ByteBuf target)`	Encode the value for output to redis.
`int`	`estimateSize(Object keyOrValue)`	Estimates the size of the resulting byte stream.
`default boolean`	`isEstimateExact()`	Returns `true` if `estimateSize(Object)` returns exact size This is used as an optimization to reduce memory allocations when encoding data.

- Method Detail
  - encodeKey
```
void encodeKey(K key,
               ByteBuf target)
```
    Encode the key for output to redis.
    
    Parameters:
    
    key - the key, may be null.
    
    target - the target buffer, must not be null.
  - encodeValue
```
void encodeValue(V value,
                 ByteBuf target)
```
    Encode the value for output to redis.
    
    Parameters:
    
    value - the value, may be null.
    
    target - the target buffer, must not be null.
  - estimateSize
```
int estimateSize(Object keyOrValue)
```
    Estimates the size of the resulting byte stream. This method is called for keys and values to estimate the size for the temporary buffer to allocate.
    
    Parameters:
    
    keyOrValue - the key or value, may be null.
    
    Returns:
    
    the estimated number of bytes in the encoded representation.
  - isEstimateExact
```
default boolean isEstimateExact()
```
    Returns true if estimateSize(Object) returns exact size This is used as an optimization to reduce memory allocations when encoding data.
    
    Returns:
    
    true if estimateSize(Object) returns exact size.
    
    Since:
    
    6.3.2