/**
* CloudGraph Community Edition (CE) License
*
* This is a community release of CloudGraph, a dual-license suite of
* Service Data Object (SDO) 2.1 services designed for relational and
* big-table style "cloud" databases, such as HBase and others.
* This particular copy of the software is released under the
* version 2 of the GNU General Public License. CloudGraph was developed by
* TerraMeta Software, Inc.
*
* Copyright (c) 2013, TerraMeta Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
*
* General License information can be found below.
*
* This distribution may include materials developed by third
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* materials, please refer to the documentation that accompanies
* this distribution (see the "Licenses for Third-Party Components"
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*/
package org.cloudgraph.hbase.scan;
/**
* Represents the literal for an individual field within a composite
* row key and provides access to the key byte sequence for
* various supported relational operators under a row-key
* 'Get' operation for various optionally configurable hashing,
* formatting, padding and other features.
* @author Scott Cinnamond
* @since 0.5.5
* @see CompleteRowKeyScan
* @see CompleteRowKeyLiteral
*/
public interface CompleteRowKeyLiteral {
/**
* Returns the bytes
* used to represent an "equals" relational operator
* for a specific composite row key field, under an HBase 'Get' operation for
* the various optionally configurable hashing,
* formatting and padding features.
* @return the bytes
* used to represent an "equals" relational operator
* for a specific composite row key field, under an HBase 'Get' operation for
* the various optionally configurable hashing,
* formatting and padding features.
*/
public byte[] getEqualsBytes();
}