parcel KinoSearch cnick Kino;

/** Read a segment's sort caches.
 */
class KinoSearch::Index::SortCache inherits KinoSearch::Object::Obj {

    CharBuf   *field;
    FieldType *type;
    void      *ords;
    int32_t    doc_max;
    int32_t    cardinality;
    int32_t    ord_width;
    int32_t    null_ord;
    bool_t     native_ords;

    public inert SortCache*
    init(SortCache *self, const CharBuf *field, FieldType *type,
         void *ords, int32_t cardinality, int32_t doc_max, int32_t null_ord = -1,
         int32_t ord_width);

    /** Assign the value for ordinal <code>ord</code> to <code>blank</code>.
     *
     * @return either <code>blank</code> (no longer blank), or NULL if the
     * value for <code>ord</code> is NULL.
     */
    public abstract nullable Obj*
    Value(SortCache *self, int32_t ord, Obj *blank);

    /** Return an object appropriate for use as an argument to Value(). 
     */
    public abstract incremented Obj*
    Make_Blank(SortCache *self);

    public void*
    Get_Ords(SortCache *self);

    public int32_t
    Get_Cardinality(SortCache *self);

    public int32_t
    Get_Ord_Width(SortCache *self);

    public int32_t
    Get_Null_Ord(SortCache *self);

    public int32_t
    Ordinal(SortCache *self, int32_t doc_id);

    /** Attempt to find the ordinal of the supplied <code>term</code>.  If the
     * term cannot be found, return the ordinal of the term that would appear
     * immediately before it in sort order.
     *
     * @return an integer between -1 and the highest ordinal.
     */
    public int32_t
    Find(SortCache *self, Obj *term = NULL);

    /** Early versions of SortCache had a bug where ords were written using
     * native byte order rather than big-endian byte order.  The "native_ords"
     * setting indicates whether this SortCache has such a bug.
     */
    void
    Set_Native_Ords(SortCache *self, bool_t native_ords);

    bool_t
    Get_Native_Ords(SortCache *self);

    public void
    Destroy(SortCache *self);
}

/* Copyright 2006-2011 Marvin Humphrey
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * under the same terms as Perl itself.
 */