Doesn't that depend on the generic type T of the Layout<T>? For example, MessageLayout extends AbstractLayout<Message> returns a Message instance. You could return a ByteBuffer, but generally for an efficient binary layout I would look at the encode method instead.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:45 PM, Mikael Ståldal <[email protected]> wrote: > How is a binary layout (extending AbstractLayout) supposed to implement > the toSerializable method in the Layout interface? > > Why is that method there? > >
