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19  
20  package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util;
21  
22  import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
23  import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
24  
25  /**
26   * Specifies methods needed to add elements to a Bloom filter and serialize the
27   * resulting Bloom filter as a sequence of bytes.
28   */
29  @InterfaceAudience.Private
30  public interface BloomFilterWriter extends BloomFilterBase {
31  
32    /** Allocate memory for the bloom filter data. */
33    void allocBloom();
34  
35    /** Compact the Bloom filter before writing metadata & data to disk. */
36    void compactBloom();
37  
38    /**
39     * Get a writable interface into bloom filter meta data.
40     *
41     * @return a writable instance that can be later written to a stream
42     */
43    Writable getMetaWriter();
44  
45    /**
46     * Get a writable interface into bloom filter data (the actual Bloom bits).
47     * Not used for compound Bloom filters.
48     *
49     * @return a writable instance that can be later written to a stream
50     */
51    Writable getDataWriter();
52  
53    /**
54     * Add the specified binary to the bloom filter.
55     *
56     * @param buf data to be added to the bloom
57     * @param offset offset into the data to be added
58     * @param len length of the data to be added
59     */
60    void add(byte[] buf, int offset, int len);
61  
62  }