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/**
* This code is released under the
* Apache License Version 2.0 http://www.apache.org/licenses/.
*
* (c) Daniel Lemire, http://lemire.me/en/
*/
package me.lemire.integercompression;
/**
* Interface describing a standard CODEC to compress integers.
*
* @author Daniel Lemire
*
*/
public interface IntegerCODEC {
/**
* Compress data from an array to another array.
*
* Both inpos and outpos are modified to represent how much data was
* read and written to if 12 ints (inlength = 12) are compressed to 3
* ints, then inpos will be incremented by 12 while outpos will be
* incremented by 3 we use IntWrapper to pass the values by reference.
*
* @param in
* input array
* @param inpos
* location in the input array
* @param inlength
* how many integers to compress
* @param out
* output array
* @param outpos
* where to write in the output array
*/
public void compress(int[] in, IntWrapper inpos, int inlength,
int[] out, IntWrapper outpos);
/**
* Uncompress data from an array to another array.
*
* Both inpos and outpos parameters are modified to indicate new
* positions after read/write.
*
* @param in
* array containing data in compressed form
* @param inpos
* where to start reading in the array
* @param inlength
* length of the compressed data (ignored by some
* schemes)
* @param out
* array where to write the compressed output
* @param outpos
* where to write the compressed output in out
*/
public void uncompress(int[] in, IntWrapper inpos, int inlength,
int[] out, IntWrapper outpos);
}