net.openhft.chronicle.hash.serialization

Interface BytesInterop<E>

Type Parameters:

E - type of marshalled objects

All Superinterfaces:

BytesWriter<E>, Serializable

public interface BytesInterop<E>
extends BytesWriter<E>

Writer for objects, which themselves are bytes sequence in some sense: Byteables, byte[] arrays, other primitive arrays, "flat" objects (with primitives fields only), particularly boxed primitive types.

This interface is called "BytesInterop" because it allows to work with object as they are already marshalled to Bytes: compare with other Bytes, i. e. interoperate objects and Bytes.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	hash(E e)
boolean	startsWith(Bytes bytes, E e) Checks if the given bytes starts (from the bytes' position) with the byte sequence the given object is serialized to, without actual serialization.

Methods inherited from interface net.openhft.chronicle.hash.serialization.BytesWriter

size, write

Method Detail

startsWith

boolean startsWith(Bytes bytes,
                 E e)

Checks if the given bytes starts (from the bytes' position) with the byte sequence the given object is serialized to, without actual serialization.

Parameters:

bytes - the bytes to check if starts with the serialized form of the given object. bytes' is positioned at the first byte to compare. bytes' limit is unspecified. bytes' position and limit shouldn't be altered during this call.

e - the object to serialize virtually and compare with the given bytes

Returns:

if the given bytes starts with the given e object's serialized form

hash

long hash(E e)