Interface Encoder

lang/csharp/src/apache/main/IO/Encoder.cs:25–195

Defines the interface for a class that provides low-level support for serializing Avro values.

    /// values.
    /// </summary>
    public interface Encoder
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a null value.
        /// </summary>
        void WriteNull();

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a boolean value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Value to write.</param>
        void WriteBoolean(bool value);

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes an int value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Value to write.</param>
        void WriteInt(int value);

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a long value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Value to write.</param>
        void WriteLong(long value);

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a float value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Value to write.</param>
        void WriteFloat(float value);

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a double value.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Value to write.</param>
        void WriteDouble(double value);

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a byte string.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Value to write.</param>
        void WriteBytes(byte[] value);

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes a byte string.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">The byte[] to be read (fully or partially)</param>
        /// <param name="offset">The offset from the beginning of the byte[] to start writing</param>
        /// <param name="length">The length of the data to be read from the byte[].</param>

        void WriteBytes(byte[] value, int offset, int length);

        /// <summary>
        /// Writes an Unicode string.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="value">Value to write.</param>
        void WriteString(string value);