Class NOnesIntEncoder


  • public class NOnesIntEncoder
    extends FourFlagsIntEncoder
    A variation of FourFlagsIntEncoder which translates the data as follows:
    • Values ≥ 2 are trnalsated to value+1 (2 ⇒ 3, 3 ⇒ 4 and so forth).
    • Any N occurrences of 1 are encoded as a single 2.
    • Otherwise, each 1 is encoded as 1.

    Encoding examples:

    • N = 4: the data 1,1,1,1,1 is translated to: 2, 1
    • N = 3: the data 1,2,3,4,1,1,1,1,5 is translated to 1,3,4,5,2,1,6
    NOTE: this encoder does not support values ≤ 0 and Integer.MAX_VALUE. 0 is not supported because it's not supported by FourFlagsIntEncoder and Integer.MAX_VALUE because this encoder translates N to N+1, which will cause an overflow and Integer.MAX_VALUE will become a negative number, which is not supported as well.
    This does not mean you cannot encode Integer.MAX_VALUE. If it is not the first value to encode, and you wrap this encoder with DGapIntEncoder, then the value that will be sent to this encoder will be MAX_VAL - prev.
    WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.
    • Constructor Detail

      • NOnesIntEncoder

        public NOnesIntEncoder​(int n)
        Constructs an encoder with a given value of N (N: Number of consecutive '1's to be translated into single target value '2').
    • Method Detail

      • close

        public void close()
                   throws IOException
        Description copied from class: IntEncoder
        Instructs the encoder to finish the encoding process. This method closes the output stream which was specified by reInit. An implementation may do here additional cleanup required to complete the encoding, such as flushing internal buffers, etc.
        Once this method was called, no further calls to encode should be made before first calling reInit.

        NOTE: overriding classes should make sure they either call super.close() or close the output stream themselves.

        Overrides:
        close in class ChunksIntEncoder
        Throws:
        IOException
      • createMatchingDecoder

        public IntDecoder createMatchingDecoder()
        Description copied from class: IntEncoder
        Returns an IntDecoder which matches this encoder. Every encoder must return an IntDecoder and null is not a valid value. If an encoder is just a filter, it should at least return its wrapped encoder's matching decoder.

        NOTE: this method should create a new instance of the matching decoder and leave the instance sharing to the caller. Returning the same instance over and over is risky because encoders and decoders are not thread safe.

        Overrides:
        createMatchingDecoder in class FourFlagsIntEncoder
      • reInit

        public void reInit​(OutputStream out)
        Description copied from class: IntEncoder
        Reinitializes the encoder with the give OutputStream. For re-usability it can be changed without the need to reconstruct a new object.

        NOTE: after calling IntEncoder.close(), one must call this method even if the output stream itself hasn't changed. An example case is that the output stream wraps a byte[], and the output stream itself is reset, but its instance hasn't changed. Some implementations of IntEncoder may write some metadata about themselves to the output stream, and therefore it is imperative that one calls this method before encoding any data.

        Overrides:
        reInit in class ChunksIntEncoder