ByteArray.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.io.file.tfile;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.BytesWritable;

/**
 * Adaptor class to wrap byte-array backed objects (including java byte array)
 * as RawComparable objects.
 */
public final class ByteArray implements RawComparable {
  private final byte[] buffer;
  private final int offset;
  private final int len;

  /**
   * Constructing a ByteArray from a {@link BytesWritable}.
   * 
   * @param other
   */
  public ByteArray(BytesWritable other) {
    this(other.get(), 0, other.getSize());
  }

  /**
   * Wrap a whole byte array as a RawComparable.
   * 
   * @param buffer
   *          the byte array buffer.
   */
  public ByteArray(byte[] buffer) {
    this(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
  }

  /**
   * Wrap a partial byte array as a RawComparable.
   * 
   * @param buffer
   *          the byte array buffer.
   * @param offset
   *          the starting offset
   * @param len
   *          the length of the consecutive bytes to be wrapped.
   */
  public ByteArray(byte[] buffer, int offset, int len) {
    if ((offset | len | (buffer.length - offset - len)) < 0) {
      throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
    }
    this.buffer = buffer;
    this.offset = offset;
    this.len = len;
  }

  /**
   * @return the underlying buffer.
   */
  @Override
  public byte[] buffer() {
    return buffer;
  }

  /**
   * @return the offset in the buffer.
   */
  @Override
  public int offset() {
    return offset;
  }

  /**
   * @return the size of the byte array.
   */
  @Override
  public int size() {
    return len;
  }
}