Method floatingPointValueToFix

src/core/Internal.java:556–561

Returns whether or not this is a floating value that needs to be fixed. OpenTSDB used to encode all floating point values as `float' (4 bytes) but actually store them on 8 bytes, with 4 leading 0 bytes, and flags correctly stating the value was on 4 bytes. (from CompactionQueue) @param flags The

(final byte flags,
                                                 final byte[] value)

   * @param value The value that may need to be corrected.
   */
  public static boolean floatingPointValueToFix(final byte flags,
                                                 final byte[] value) {
    return (flags & Const.FLAG_FLOAT) != 0   // We need a floating point value.
      && (flags & Const.LENGTH_MASK) == 0x3  // That pretends to be on 4 bytes.
      && value.length == 8;                  // But is actually using 8 bytes.
  }

  /**
   * Returns a corrected value if this is a floating point value to fix.