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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazybinary;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazyObjectBase;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspector;
/**
* LazyBinaryObject stores an object in a binary format in a byte[]. For
* example, a double takes four bytes.
*
* A LazyBinaryObject can represent any primitive object or hierarchical object
* like string, list, map or struct.
*/
public abstract class LazyBinaryObject<OI extends ObjectInspector> implements LazyObjectBase {
OI oi;
/**
* Create a LazyBinaryObject.
*
* @param oi
* Derived classes can access meta information about this Lazy Binary
* Object (e.g, length, null-bits) from it.
*/
protected LazyBinaryObject(OI oi) {
this.oi = oi;
}
public void setNull() {
throw new IllegalStateException("should not be called");
}
@Override
public abstract int hashCode();
}