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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io;

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

import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;

/**
 * This interface marks a class to support writing ByteBuffers into it.
 * @see ByteArrayOutputStream
 * @see ByteBufferOutputStream
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface ByteBufferWriter {

  /**
   * Writes len bytes from the specified ByteBuffer starting at offset off
   *
   * @param b the data.
   * @param off the start offset in the data.
   * @param len the number of bytes to write.
   * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs.
   */
  void write(ByteBuffer b, int off, int len) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Writes an int to the underlying output stream as four bytes, high byte first.
   * @param i the int to write
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.
   */
  // This is pure performance oriented API been added here. It has nothing to do with
  // ByteBuffer and so not fully belong to here. This allows an int to be written at one go instead
  // of 4 (4 bytes one by one).
  // TODO remove it from here?
  void writeInt(int i) throws IOException;
}