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// Copyright (c) 2012, Suryandaru Triandana <syndtr@gmail.com>
// All rights reserved.
//
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

// Package filter provides interface and implementation of probabilistic
// data structure.
//
// The filter is resposible for creating small filter from a set of keys.
// These filter will then used to test whether a key is a member of the set.
// In many cases, a filter can cut down the number of disk seeks from a
// handful to a single disk seek per DB.Get call.
package filter

// Buffer is the interface that wraps basic Alloc, Write and WriteByte methods.
type Buffer interface {
    // Alloc allocs n bytes of slice from the buffer. This also advancing
    // write offset.
    Alloc(n int) []byte

    // Write appends the contents of p to the buffer.
    Write(p []byte) (n int, err error)

    // WriteByte appends the byte c to the buffer.
    WriteByte(c byte) error
}

// Filter is the filter.
type Filter interface {
    // Name returns the name of this policy.
    //
    // Note that if the filter encoding changes in an incompatible way,
    // the name returned by this method must be changed. Otherwise, old
    // incompatible filters may be passed to methods of this type.
    Name() string

    // NewGenerator creates a new filter generator.
    NewGenerator() FilterGenerator

    // Contains returns true if the filter contains the given key.
    //
    // The filter are filters generated by the filter generator.
    Contains(filter, key []byte) bool
}

// FilterGenerator is the filter generator.
type FilterGenerator interface {
    // Add adds a key to the filter generator.
    //
    // The key may become invalid after call to this method end, therefor
    // key must be copied if implementation require keeping key for later
    // use. The key should not modified directly, doing so may cause
    // undefined results.
    Add(key []byte)

    // Generate generates filters based on keys passed so far. After call
    // to Generate the filter generator maybe resetted, depends on implementation.
    Generate(b Buffer)
}