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

import org.apache.hadoop.io.ByteWritable;

import edu.uci.ics.hivesterix.serde.lazy.objectinspector.primitive.LazyByteObjectInspector;

/**
 * LazyObject for storing a value of Byte.
 * 
 * <p>
 * Part of the code is adapted from Apache Harmony Project.
 * 
 * As with the specification, this implementation relied on code laid out in <a
 * href="http://www.hackersdelight.org/">Henry S. Warren, Jr.'s Hacker's
 * Delight, (Addison Wesley, 2002)</a> as well as <a
 * href="http://aggregate.org/MAGIC/">The Aggregate's Magic Algorithms</a>.
 * </p>
 * 
 */
public class LazyByte extends
		LazyPrimitive<LazyByteObjectInspector, ByteWritable> {

	public LazyByte(LazyByteObjectInspector oi) {
		super(oi);
		data = new ByteWritable();
	}

	public LazyByte(LazyByte copy) {
		super(copy);
		data = new ByteWritable(copy.data.get());
	}

	@Override
	public void init(byte[] bytes, int start, int length) {
		if (length == 0) {
			isNull = true;
			return;
		} else
			isNull = false;

		assert (1 == length);
		data.set(bytes[start]);
	}

}