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package tachyon.worker.netty.protocol.buffer;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

/**
 * This class is a simple wrapper for the optional data that an RPCMessage may have. This allows
 * subclasses to support different representations of the data.
 */
public abstract class DataBuffer {
  /**
   * Returns an object for writing to a netty channel.
   *
   * @return the object to output to Netty. Must be ByteBuf or FileRegion.
   */
  public abstract Object getNettyOutput();

  /**
   * Returns the length of the data.
   *
   * @return the length of the data in bytes.
   */
  public abstract long getLength();

  public abstract ByteBuffer getReadOnlyByteBuffer();
}

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