hyracks-storage-am-common/src/main/java/edu/uci/ics/hyracks/storage/am/common/api/ITreeIndexTupleWriter.java

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package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.common.api;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

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

public interface ITreeIndexTupleWriter {
	public int writeTuple(ITupleReference tuple, ByteBuffer targetBuf,
			int targetOff);

	public int bytesRequired(ITupleReference tuple);

	public int writeTupleFields(ITupleReference tuple, int startField,
			int numFields, ByteBuffer targetBuf, int targetOff);

	public int bytesRequired(ITupleReference tuple, int startField,
			int numFields);

	// return a tuplereference instance that can read the tuple written by this
	// writer
	// the main idea is that the format of the written tuple may not be the same
	// as the format written by this writer
	public ITreeIndexTupleReference createTupleReference();
}