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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.types;

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Order;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.OrderedBytes;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.PositionedByteRange;

/**
 * Base class for data types backed by the {@link OrderedBytes} encoding
 * implementations.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Public
public abstract class OrderedBytesBase<T> implements DataType<T> {

  protected final Order order;

  protected OrderedBytesBase(Order order) { this.order = order; }

  @Override
  public boolean isOrderPreserving() { return true; }

  @Override
  public Order getOrder() { return order; }

  // almost all OrderedBytes implementations are nullable.
  @Override
  public boolean isNullable() { return true; }

  // almost all OrderedBytes implementations are skippable.
  @Override
  public boolean isSkippable() { return true; }

  @Override
  public int skip(PositionedByteRange src) {
    return OrderedBytes.skip(src);
  }
}