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/*
* Copyright 2016-2016 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").
* You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* A copy of the License is located at:
*
* http://aws.amazon.com/apache2.0/
*
* or in the "license" file accompanying this file. This file is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific
* language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
*/
/**
* Provides the implementation for the second-generation Ion binary implementation.
* At this time, this is limited to a binary {@link software.amazon.ion.IonWriter}.
*
*
* This package limits most of its APIs to package-level access, the public API of note is contained within
* the {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.PrivateIonManagedBinaryWriterBuilder} which builds instances of
* {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.IonManagedBinaryWriter}. See the below section for what Managed means
* in this context.
*
*
Block API
* A generalized interface for blocks of heap memory are provided via the {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.Block} API.
* There are two factory type APIs to actually get a {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.Block} instance:
* {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.BlockAllocator} which vend blocks of a particular fixed size
* and {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.BlockAllocatorProvider} which creates {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.BlockAllocator}
* instances.
*
* The primary reason for this level of indirection is flexibility for the underlying implementations of {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.Block}
* and {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.BlockAllocator}. These APIs are not required to be thread-safe, whereas
* {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.BlockAllocatorProvider} is required to be thread-safe.
*
* The APIs for {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.BlockAllocator} and {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.Block}
* follow the resource pattern (similar in principle to I/O streams), and should be closed when no longer needed
* to allow implementation resources to be released or re-used.
*
*
Raw Binary Ion Writer
* The {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.IonRawBinaryWriter} deals with the low-level encoding considerations of the
* Ion format. The {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.WriteBuffer} is used closely with this implementation to
* deal with the Ion sub-field encodings (e.g. VarInt, VarUInt, and UTF-8).
*
* Managed Binary Ion Writer
* The {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.IonManagedBinaryWriter} is layered on top of the {@link software.amazon.ion.impl.bin.IonRawBinaryWriter}.
* In particular, it intercepts symbol, annotation, field names and handles the mechanics of symbol table management
* transparently to the user.
*/
package software.amazon.ion.impl.bin;