From e804a8d57366547d289e49fad9ca34bfba662e93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ameba23 <ameba23@systemli.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 16:27:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] method to get a ReturnShardPayload as bytes to avoid needing
 the messageEncoder

---
 .../briar/api/socialbackup/SocialBackupManager.java            | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/briar-api/src/main/java/org/briarproject/briar/api/socialbackup/SocialBackupManager.java b/briar-api/src/main/java/org/briarproject/briar/api/socialbackup/SocialBackupManager.java
index dc61fc7d9..8905617ce 100644
--- a/briar-api/src/main/java/org/briarproject/briar/api/socialbackup/SocialBackupManager.java
+++ b/briar-api/src/main/java/org/briarproject/briar/api/socialbackup/SocialBackupManager.java
@@ -58,4 +58,7 @@ public interface SocialBackupManager extends
 
 	ReturnShardPayload getReturnShardPayload(Transaction txn, ContactId contactId)
 			throws DbException;
+
+	byte[] getReturnShardPayloadBytes(Transaction txn, ContactId contactId)
+			throws DbException;
 }