org.aksw.jena_sparql_api.io.binseach

Interface Segment

All Superinterfaces:

AutoCloseable, ChannelFactory<Seekable>

All Known Subinterfaces:

Block

All Known Implementing Classes:

DecodedDataBlock

public interface Segment
extends ChannelFactory<Seekable>

A segment is a sequence of bytes with a fixed size. Channels provide access to this sequence using a linear position. Channels may maintain internal pointers corresponding to a position. This may speed up speed up relative read operations as e.g. lookup of the right bucket for consecutive reads can be skipped.

Author:

raven

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	length() Retrieve the length of the segment For segments that are based on encoded data this method may trigger a full read

Methods inherited from interface org.aksw.jena_sparql_api.io.api.ChannelFactory

newChannel

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.AutoCloseable

close

Method Detail

length

long length()
     throws IOException

Retrieve the length of the segment For segments that are based on encoded data this method may trigger a full read

Returns:

Throws:

IOException