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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile;

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

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.encoding.DataBlockEncoding;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.encoding.HFileBlockDecodingContext;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.encoding.HFileBlockEncodingContext;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;

/**
 * Controls what kind of data block encoding is used. If data block encoding is
 * not set or the given block is not a data block (encoded or not), methods
 * should just return the unmodified block.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface HFileDataBlockEncoder {
  /** Type of encoding used for data blocks in HFile. Stored in file info. */
  byte[] DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING = Bytes.toBytes("DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING");

  /**
   * Should be called before an encoded or unencoded data block is written to
   * disk.
   * @param in KeyValues next to each other
   * @param encodingResult the encoded result
   * @param blockType block type
   * @throws IOException
   */
  void beforeWriteToDisk(
    ByteBuffer in,
    HFileBlockEncodingContext encodingResult,
    BlockType blockType
  ) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Decides whether we should use a scanner over encoded blocks.
   * @return Whether to use encoded scanner.
   */
  boolean useEncodedScanner();

  /**
   * Save metadata in HFile which will be written to disk
   * @param writer writer for a given HFile
   * @exception IOException on disk problems
   */
  void saveMetadata(HFile.Writer writer)
      throws IOException;

  /** @return the data block encoding */
  DataBlockEncoding getDataBlockEncoding();

  /**
   * Create an encoder specific encoding context object for writing. And the
   * encoding context should also perform compression if compressionAlgorithm is
   * valid.
   *
   * @param headerBytes header bytes
   * @param fileContext HFile meta data
   * @return a new {@link HFileBlockEncodingContext} object
   */
  HFileBlockEncodingContext newDataBlockEncodingContext(byte[] headerBytes,
      HFileContext fileContext);

  /**
   * create a encoder specific decoding context for reading. And the
   * decoding context should also do decompression if compressionAlgorithm
   * is valid.
   *
   * @param fileContext - HFile meta data
   * @return a new {@link HFileBlockDecodingContext} object
   */
  HFileBlockDecodingContext newDataBlockDecodingContext(HFileContext fileContext);
}