Geode Data Types

 public static final byte NULL_ARRAY = -1; // array is null
  /**
   * @since GemFire 5.7
   */
  private static final byte SHORT_ARRAY_LEN = -2; // array len encoded as unsigned short in next 2
                                                  // bytes
  /**
   * @since GemFire 5.7
   */
  public static final byte INT_ARRAY_LEN = -3; // array len encoded as int in next 4 bytes
  private static final int MAX_BYTE_ARRAY_LEN = ((byte) -4) & 0xFF;
  public static void writeArrayLength(int len, DataOutput out) throws IOException {
    if (len == -1) {
      out.writeByte(NULL_ARRAY);
    } else if (len <= MAX_BYTE_ARRAY_LEN) {
      out.writeByte(len);
    } else if (len <= 0xFFFF) {
      out.writeByte(SHORT_ARRAY_LEN);
      out.writeShort(len);
    } else {
      out.writeByte(INT_ARRAY_LEN);
      out.writeInt(len);
    }
  }

  public static int readArrayLength(DataInput in) throws IOException {
    byte code = in.readByte();
    if (code == NULL_ARRAY) {
      return -1;
    } else {
      int result = ubyteToInt(code);
      if (result > MAX_BYTE_ARRAY_LEN) {
        if (code == SHORT_ARRAY_LEN) {
          result = in.readUnsignedShort();
        } else if (code == INT_ARRAY_LEN) {
          result = in.readInt();
        } else {
          throw new IllegalStateException("unexpected array length code=" + code);
        }
      }
      return result;
    }
  }

public static void writeString(String value, DataOutput out) throws IOException {
    InternalDataSerializer.checkOut(out);
    final boolean isDebugEnabled = logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.SERIALIZER);
    if (isDebugEnabled) {
      logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Writing String \"{}\"", value);
    }
    if (value == null) {
      if (isDebugEnabled) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Writing NULL_STRING");
      }
      out.writeByte(DSCODE.NULL_STRING);
    } else {
      // [bruce] writeUTF is expensive - it creates a char[] to fetch
      // the string's contents, iterates over the array to compute the
      // encoded length, creates a byte[] to hold the encoded bytes,
      // iterates over the char[] again to create the encode bytes,
      // then writes the bytes. Since we usually deal with ISO-8859-1
      // strings, we can accelerate this by accessing chars directly
      // with charAt and fill a single-byte buffer. If we run into
      // a multibyte char, we revert to using writeUTF()
      int len = value.length();
      int utfLen = len; // added for bug 40932
      for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
        char c = value.charAt(i);
        if ((c <= 0x007F) && (c >= 0x0001)) {
          // nothing needed
        } else if (c > 0x07FF) {
          utfLen += 2;
        } else {
          utfLen += 1;
        }
        // Note we no longer have an early out when we detect the first
        // non-ascii char because we need to compute the utfLen for bug 40932.
        // This is not a performance problem because most strings are ascii
        // and they never did the early out.
      }
      boolean writeUTF = utfLen > len;
      if (writeUTF) {
        if (utfLen > 0xFFFF) {
          if (isDebugEnabled) {
            logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Writing utf HUGE_STRING of len={}", len);
          }
          out.writeByte(DSCODE.HUGE_STRING);
          out.writeInt(len);
          out.writeChars(value);
        } else {
          if (isDebugEnabled) {
            logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Writing utf STRING of len={}", len);
          }
          out.writeByte(DSCODE.STRING);
          out.writeUTF(value);
        }
      } else {
        if (len > 0xFFFF) {
          if (isDebugEnabled) {
            logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Writing HUGE_STRING_BYTES of len={}", len);
          }
          out.writeByte(DSCODE.HUGE_STRING_BYTES);
          out.writeInt(len);
          out.writeBytes(value);
        } else {
          if (isDebugEnabled) {
            logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Writing STRING_BYTES of len={}", len);
          }
          out.writeByte(DSCODE.STRING_BYTES);
          out.writeShort(len);
          out.writeBytes(value);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  public static String readString(DataInput in, byte header) throws IOException {
    if (header == DSCODE.STRING_BYTES) {
      int len = in.readUnsignedShort();
      if (logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.SERIALIZER)) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Reading STRING_BYTES of len={}", len);
      }
      byte[] buf = new byte[len];
      in.readFully(buf, 0, len);
      return new String(buf, 0); // intentionally using deprecated constructor
    } else if (header == DSCODE.STRING) {
      if (logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.SERIALIZER)) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Reading utf STRING");
      }
      return in.readUTF();
    } else if (header == DSCODE.NULL_STRING) {
      if (logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.SERIALIZER)) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Reading NULL_STRING");
      }
      return null;
    } else if (header == DSCODE.HUGE_STRING_BYTES) {
      int len = in.readInt();
      if (logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.SERIALIZER)) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Reading HUGE_STRING_BYTES of len={}", len);
      }
      byte[] buf = new byte[len];
      in.readFully(buf, 0, len);
      return new String(buf, 0); // intentionally using deprecated constructor
    } else if (header == DSCODE.HUGE_STRING) {
      int len = in.readInt();
      if (logger.isTraceEnabled(LogMarker.SERIALIZER)) {
        logger.trace(LogMarker.SERIALIZER, "Reading HUGE_STRING of len={}", len);
      }
      char[] buf = new char[len];
      for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
        buf[i] = in.readChar();
      }
      return new String(buf);
    } else {
      String s = "Unknown String header " + header;
      throw new IOException(s);
    }
  }