parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/ColumnWriter.java

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package org.apache.parquet.column;

import org.apache.parquet.bytes.BytesInput;
import org.apache.parquet.io.api.Binary;

/**
 * writer for (repetition level, definition level, values) triplets
 */
public interface ColumnWriter {

  /**
   * writes the current value
   * @param value an int value
   * @param repetitionLevel a repetition level
   * @param definitionLevel a definition level
   */
  void write(int value, int repetitionLevel, int definitionLevel);

  /**
   * writes the current value
   * @param value a long value
   * @param repetitionLevel a repetition level
   * @param definitionLevel a definition level
   */
  void write(long value, int repetitionLevel, int definitionLevel);

  /**
   * writes the current value
   * @param value a boolean value
   * @param repetitionLevel a repetition level
   * @param definitionLevel a definition level
   */
  void write(boolean value, int repetitionLevel, int definitionLevel);

  /**
   * writes the current value
   * @param value a Binary value
   * @param repetitionLevel a repetition level
   * @param definitionLevel a definition level
   */
  void write(Binary value, int repetitionLevel, int definitionLevel);

  /**
   * writes the current value
   * @param value a float value
   * @param repetitionLevel a repetition level
   * @param definitionLevel a definition level
   */
  void write(float value, int repetitionLevel, int definitionLevel);

  /**
   * writes the current value
   * @param value a double value
   * @param repetitionLevel a repetition level
   * @param definitionLevel a definition level
   */
  void write(double value, int repetitionLevel, int definitionLevel);

  /**
   * writes the current null value
   * @param repetitionLevel a repetition level
   * @param definitionLevel a definition level
   */
  void writeNull(int repetitionLevel, int definitionLevel);

 /**
  * Close the underlying store. This should be called when there are no
  * more data to be written.
  */
  void close();

  /**
   * used to decide when to write a page or row group
   * @return the number of bytes of memory used to buffer the current data
   */
  long getBufferedSizeInMemory();
}