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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy;
public interface LazyObjectBase {
/**
* Set the data for this LazyObjectBase. We take ByteArrayRef instead of byte[] so
* that we will be able to drop the reference to byte[] by a single
* assignment. The ByteArrayRef object can be reused across multiple rows.
*
* @param bytes
* The wrapper of the byte[].
* @param start
* The start position inside the bytes.
* @param length
* The length of the data, starting from "start"
* @see ByteArrayRef
*/
void init(ByteArrayRef bytes, int start, int length);
/**
* called for null binary, hbase columns, for example
*/
void setNull();
/**
* If the LazyObjectBase is a primitive Object, then deserialize it and return the
* actual primitive Object. Otherwise (array, map, struct), return this.
*/
Object getObject();
}