BaseColumnValue.java

/*
 * Agiato: A simple no frill Cassandra API
 * Author: Pranab Ghosh
 * 
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 *
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package agiato.cassandra.data;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

/**
 * Base class for column value
 * @author pranab
 */
public class BaseColumnValue {
     protected ByteBuffer name = Util.getEmptyByteBuffer();;

    /**
     * @return the name
     */
    public ByteBuffer getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public String getNameAsString()  throws IOException{
        return Util.getStringFromByteBuffer(name);
    }

    /**
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public long getNameAsLong() throws IOException {
        return Util.getLongFromByteBuffer(name);
    }

    /**
     * @param name the name to set
     */
    public void setName(ByteBuffer name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    /**
     * @param name
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void setNameFromString(String name) throws IOException {
        this.name = Util.getByteBufferFromString(name) ;
    }

    /**
     * @param name
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void setNameFromLong(long name) throws IOException {
        this.name = Util.getByteBufferFromLong(name);
    }


}