parquet-column/src/main/java/parquet/io/api/Converter.java

/**
 * Copyright 2012 Twitter, Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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package parquet.io.api;

/**
 * Represent a tree of converters
 * that materializes tuples
 *
 * @author Julien Le Dem
 *
 */
public abstract class Converter {

  abstract public boolean isPrimitive();

  public PrimitiveConverter asPrimitiveConverter() {
    throw new ClassCastException(getClass().getName());
  }

  public GroupConverter asGroupConverter() {
    throw new ClassCastException(getClass().getName());
  }

}