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package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.runtime.touchpoint;

import java.io.DataOutput;
import java.io.IOException;

import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.INullWriter;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.INullWriterFactory;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;

public class MsgListNullWriterFactory implements INullWriterFactory {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    public static INullWriterFactory INSTANCE = new MsgListNullWriterFactory();

    @Override
    public INullWriter createNullWriter() {
        return new INullWriter() {

            @Override
            public void writeNull(DataOutput out) throws HyracksDataException {
                try {
                    out.writeByte(3); //start|end
                    out.writeInt(0);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new HyracksDataException(e);
                }
            }

        };
    }

}