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| package org.apache.solr.util.hll; |
| |
| /** |
| * Reads 'words' of a fixed width, in sequence, from a byte array. |
| */ |
| public interface IWordDeserializer { |
| /** |
| * @return the next word in the sequence. Should not be called more than |
| * {@link #totalWordCount()} times. |
| */ |
| long readWord(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the number of words that could be encoded in the sequence. |
| * |
| * NOTE: the sequence that was encoded may be shorter than the value this |
| * method returns due to padding issues within bytes. This guarantees |
| * only an upper bound on the number of times {@link #readWord()} |
| * can be called. |
| * |
| * @return the maximum number of words that could be read from the sequence. |
| */ |
| int totalWordCount(); |
| } |