[YANGTOOLS-1017] Cleanup Codec/Serializer/Deserializer contracts

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 18:36:03 +0000

Current definition of these interfaces is rather problematic:

it does not enforce nullness
there is no definition of what happens on illegal input
there is no provision for throwing checked exceptions

Updated the definition of Codec, so that it takes an Exception type to be thrown from serialize/deserialize. Also add a specialization for unchecked expecptions and a concrete specialization for IllegalArgumentException – which is effectively what we are doing now.

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[YANGTOOLS-1017] Cleanup Codec/Serializer/Deserializer contracts