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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy;

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.ObjectInspector;

/**
 * LazyObject stores an object in a range of bytes in a byte[].
 *
 * A LazyObject can represent any primitive object or hierarchical object like
 * array, map or struct.
 */
public abstract class LazyObject implements LazyObjectBase {

  protected OI oi;

  /**
   * Create a LazyObject.
   *
   * @param oi
   *          Derived classes can access meta information about this Lazy Object
   *          (e.g, separator, nullSequence, escaper) from it.
   */
  protected LazyObject(OI oi) {
    this.oi = oi;
  }

  @Override
  public abstract int hashCode();

  protected OI getInspector() {
    return oi;
  }

  protected void setInspector(OI oi) {
    this.oi = oi;
  }

  protected boolean isNull;

  @Override
  public void init(ByteArrayRef bytes, int start, int length) {
    if (bytes == null) {
      throw new RuntimeException("bytes cannot be null!");
    }
    this.isNull = false;
  }

  @Override
  public void setNull() {
    this.isNull = true;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the primitive object represented by this LazyObject. This is useful
   * because it can make sure we have "null" for null objects.
   */
  @Override
  public Object getObject() {
    return isNull ? null : this;
  }
}