Constructor Detail

• ByteArrayComparable

  public ByteArrayComparable(byte[] value)

  Constructor.

  Parameters:

  value - the value to compare against

Method Detail

• getValue

  public byte[] getValue()

• toByteArray

  public abstract byte[] toByteArray()

  Returns:

  The comparator serialized using pb

• parseFrom

  public static ByteArrayComparable parseFrom(byte[] pbBytes)
                                       throws DeserializationException

  Parameters:

  pbBytes - A pb serialized ByteArrayComparable instance

  Returns:

  An instance of ByteArrayComparable made from bytes

  Throws:

  DeserializationException

  See Also:

  toByteArray()

• compareTo

  public int compareTo(byte[] value)

  Specified by:

  compareTo in interface Comparable<byte[]>

• compareTo

  public abstract int compareTo(byte[] value,
              int offset,
              int length)

  Special compareTo method for subclasses, to avoid copying byte[] unnecessarily.

  Parameters:

  value - byte[] to compare

  offset - offset into value

  length - number of bytes to compare

  Returns:

  a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer as this object is less than, equal to, or greater than the specified object.