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| package org.apache.phoenix.schema; |
| |
| import org.apache.phoenix.schema.PTable.ImmutableStorageScheme; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * Interface to encode column values into a serialized byte[] that will be stored in a single cell |
| * The last byte of the serialized byte[] should be the serialized value of the {@link ImmutableStorageScheme} |
| * that was used. |
| */ |
| public interface ColumnValueEncoder { |
| |
| /** |
| * append a column value to the array |
| */ |
| void appendValue(byte[] bytes, int offset, int length); |
| |
| /** |
| * append a value that is not present to the array (used to support DEFAULT expressions) |
| */ |
| void appendAbsentValue(); |
| |
| /** |
| * @return the encoded byte[] that contains the serialized column values |
| */ |
| byte[] encode(); |
| |
| } |