codec.go

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package gokv

// Codec will be implemented to encode and decode message
type Codec interface {
	// Encode encodes the receiver into a binary form and returns the result.
	Encode(any) ([]byte, error)
	// Decode decodes a binary message
	Decode([]byte) (any, error)
}