src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/BufferClustering.java

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package org.apache.cassandra.db;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

import org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil;

/**
 * The clustering column values for a row.
 * <p>
 * A {@code Clustering} is a {@code ClusteringPrefix} that must always be "complete", i.e. have
 * as many values as there is clustering columns in the table it is part of. It is the clustering
 * prefix used by rows.
 * <p>
 * Note however that while it's size must be equal to the table clustering size, a clustering can have
 * {@code null} values, and this mostly for thrift backward compatibility (in practice, if a value is null,
 * all of the following ones will be too because that's what thrift allows, but it's never assumed by the
 * code so we could start generally allowing nulls for clustering columns if we wanted to).
 */
public class BufferClustering extends AbstractBufferClusteringPrefix implements Clustering
{
    BufferClustering(ByteBuffer... values)
    {
        super(Kind.CLUSTERING, values);
    }

    public ClusteringPrefix minimize()
    {
        if (!ByteBufferUtil.canMinimize(values))
            return this;
        return new BufferClustering(ByteBufferUtil.minimizeBuffers(values));    }
}