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package org.apache.phoenix.schema;

import org.apache.phoenix.schema.types.PDataType;

public interface PDatum {
    /**
     * @return is this column nullable?
     */
    boolean isNullable();

    /**
     * @return data type of the column
     */
    PDataType getDataType();

    /**
     * @return the actual length of the column. For decimal, it would be its precision. For char or
     * varchar, it would be the maximum length as specified during schema definition.
     */
    Integer getMaxLength();

    /**
     * @return scale of a decimal number.
     */
    Integer getScale();
    
    /**
     * @return The SortOrder for this column, never null
     */
    SortOrder getSortOrder();
    
}