Method encode

src/core/HistogramCodecManager.java:185–190

Finds the proper codec and calls it's encode method to create a byte array with the given ID as the first byte. @param id The ID of the histogram type to search for. @param data_point The non-null data point to encode. @param include_id Whether or not to include the ID prefix when encoding. @return

(final int id, 
                       final Histogram data_point, 
                       final boolean include_id)

   * the histogram may have been of the wrong type or failed encoding.
   */
  public byte[] encode(final int id, 
                       final Histogram data_point, 
                       final boolean include_id) {
    final HistogramDataPointCodec codec = getCodec(id);
    return codec.encode(data_point, include_id);
  }
  
  /**
   * Finds the proper codec and calls it's decode method to return the histogram