package act.session;

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import org.osgl.http.H;

/**
 * A `StateCodec` encode server state (Session/Flash) into string
 * and decode previous encoded state string back to state (Session/Flash)
 */
public interface SessionCodec {

    /**
     * Encode a session into a string
     *
     * @return encoded session string
     */
    String encodeSession(H.Session session);

    /**
     * Encode a flash into a string
     * @param flash
     * @return
     */
    String encodeFlash(H.Flash flash);

    /**
     * Decode a session string into a session.
     *
     * @param encodedSession
     *      the encoded session string
     * @param request
     *      the incoming request - used to provide the current URL path
     */
    H.Session decodeSession(String encodedSession, H.Request request);

    /**
     * Decode a flash string into a flash.
     *
     * @param encodedFlash
     *      the encoded flash string
     */
    H.Flash decodeFlash(String encodedFlash);


}
