Package org.apache.commons.codec
Interface Encoder
- All Known Subinterfaces:
- BinaryEncoder,- StringEncoder
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- AbstractCaverphone,- Base16,- Base32,- Base64,- BaseNCodec,- BCodec,- BeiderMorseEncoder,- BinaryCodec,- Caverphone,- Caverphone1,- Caverphone2,- ColognePhonetic,- DaitchMokotoffSoundex,- DoubleMetaphone,- Hex,- MatchRatingApproachEncoder,- Metaphone,- Nysiis,- PercentCodec,- QCodec,- QuotedPrintableCodec,- RefinedSoundex,- Soundex,- URLCodec
public interface Encoder
Provides the highest level of abstraction for Encoders.
 
 This is the sister interface of Decoder.  Every implementation of Encoder provides this
 common generic interface which allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Encoder implementation
 in the codec package.
 
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Method Summary
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Method Details- 
encodeEncodes an "Object" and returns the encoded content as an Object. The Objects here may just bebyte[]orStrings depending on the implementation used.- Parameters:
- source- An object to encode
- Returns:
- An "encoded" Object
- Throws:
- EncoderException- An encoder exception is thrown if the encoder experiences a failure condition during the encoding process.
 
 
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