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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 writeTuple(ITupleReference tuple, byte[] targetBuf, int targetOff);

    public int bytesRequired(ITupleReference tuple);

    public int writeTupleFields(ITupleReference tuple, int startField, int numFields, byte[] 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();

    // This method is only used by the BTree leaf frame split method since tuples
    // in the LSM-BTree can be either matter or anti-matter tuples and we want
    // to calculate the size of all tuples in the frame.
    public int getCopySpaceRequired(ITupleReference tuple);
}