source: proiecte/HadoopJUnit/hadoop-0.20.1/src/core/org/apache/hadoop/io/BinaryComparable.java @ 120

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package org.apache.hadoop.io;

/**
 * Interface supported by {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable}
 * types supporting ordering/permutation by a representative set of bytes.
 */
public abstract class BinaryComparable implements Comparable<BinaryComparable> {

  /**
   * Return n st bytes 0..n-1 from {#getBytes()} are valid.
   */
  public abstract int getLength();

  /**
   * Return representative byte array for this instance.
   */
  public abstract byte[] getBytes();

  /**
   * Compare bytes from {#getBytes()}.
   * @see org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator#compareBytes(byte[],int,int,byte[],int,int)
   */
  public int compareTo(BinaryComparable other) {
    if (this == other)
      return 0;
    return WritableComparator.compareBytes(getBytes(), 0, getLength(),
             other.getBytes(), 0, other.getLength());
  }

  /**
   * Compare bytes from {#getBytes()} to those provided.
   */
  public int compareTo(byte[] other, int off, int len) {
    return WritableComparator.compareBytes(getBytes(), 0, getLength(),
             other, off, len);
  }

  /**
   * Return true if bytes from {#getBytes()} match.
   */
  public boolean equals(Object other) {
    if (!(other instanceof BinaryComparable))
      return false;
    BinaryComparable that = (BinaryComparable)other;
    if (this.getLength() != that.getLength())
      return false;
    return this.compareTo(that) == 0;
  }

  /**
   * Return a hash of the bytes returned from {#getBytes()}.
   * @see org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparator#hashBytes(byte[],int)
   */
  public int hashCode() {
    return WritableComparator.hashBytes(getBytes(), getLength());
  }

}