Interface Decoder

lang/csharp/src/apache/main/IO/Decoder.cs:25–194

Decoder is used to decode Avro data on a stream. There are methods to read the Avro types on the stream. There are also methods to skip items, which are usually more efficient than reading, on the stream.

    /// methods to skip items, which are usually more efficient than reading, on the stream.
    /// </summary>
    public interface Decoder
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Reads a null Avro type.
        /// </summary>
        void ReadNull();

        /// <summary>
        /// Read a boolean Avro type
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The boolean just read</returns>
        bool ReadBoolean();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads an int Avro type.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The int just read</returns>
        int ReadInt();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads a long Avro type.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The long just read</returns>
        long ReadLong();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads a float Avro type
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The float just read</returns>
        float ReadFloat();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads a double Avro type
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The double just read</returns>
        double ReadDouble();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads the bytes Avro type
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The bytes just read</returns>
        byte[] ReadBytes();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads a string Avro type
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The string just read</returns>
        string ReadString();

        /// <summary>
        /// Reads an enum AvroType
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The enum just read</returns>
        int ReadEnum();

        /// <summary>
        /// Starts reading the array Avro type. This, together with ReadArrayNext() is used to read the
        /// items from Avro array. This returns the number of entries in the initial chunk. After consuming