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13 *
14 * Copyright 2013-2015 ForgeRock AS.
15 */
16
17 package org.forgerock.json.jose.jwe.handlers.compression;
18
19 /**
20 * The interface for CompressionHandlers for all the different compression algorithms.
21 * <p>
22 * Provides methods for compressing and decompression byte arrays.
23 *
24 * @since 2.0.0
25 */
26 public interface CompressionHandler {
27
28 /**
29 * Applies the compression algorithm to compress the given array of bytes.
30 *
31 * @param bytes The array of bytes to compress.
32 * @return The compressed representation of the byte array.
33 */
34 byte[] compress(byte[] bytes);
35
36 /**
37 * Applies the compression algorithm to decompress the given array of bytes.
38 *
39 * @param bytes The array of bytes to decompress.
40 * @return The decompressed representation of the byte array.
41 */
42 byte[] decompress(byte[] bytes);
43 }