hivesterix/hivesterix-serde/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hivesterix/serde/lazy/ByteArrayRef.java

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package edu.uci.ics.hivesterix.serde.lazy;

/**
 * ByteArrayRef stores a reference to a byte array.
 * The LazyObject hierarchy uses a reference to a single ByteArrayRef, so that
 * it's much faster to switch to the next row and release the reference to the
 * old row (so that the system can do garbage collection if needed).
 */
public class ByteArrayRef {

    /**
     * Stores the actual data.
     */
    byte[] data;

    public byte[] getData() {
        return data;
    }

    public void setData(byte[] data) {
        this.data = data;
    }

}