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

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspector;

import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.IFrameTupleReference;

/**
 * LazyObject stores an object in a range of bytes in a byte[].
 * A LazyObject can represent any primitive object or hierarchical object like
 * array, map or struct.
 */
public abstract class LazyObject<OI extends ObjectInspector> {

    OI oi;

    /**
     * Create a LazyObject.
     * 
     * @param oi
     *            Derived classes can access meta information about this Lazy
     *            Object (e.g, separator, nullSequence, escaper) from it.
     */
    protected LazyObject(OI oi) {
        this.oi = oi;
    }

    /**
     * Set the data for this LazyObject. We take ByteArrayRef instead of byte[]
     * so that we will be able to drop the reference to byte[] by a single
     * assignment. The ByteArrayRef object can be reused across multiple rows.
     * 
     * @param bytes
     *            The wrapper of the byte[].
     * @param start
     *            The start position inside the bytes.
     * @param length
     *            The length of the data, starting from "start"
     * @see ByteArrayRef
     */
    public abstract void init(byte[] bytes, int start, int length);

    public abstract void init(IFrameTupleReference tuple);

    /**
     * If the LazyObject is a primitive Object, then deserialize it and return
     * the actual primitive Object. Otherwise (array, map, struct), return this.
     */
    public abstract Object getObject();

    @Override
    public abstract int hashCode();

    protected OI getInspector() {
        return oi;
    }

    protected void setInspector(OI oi) {
        this.oi = oi;
    }
}