Column.java

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package com.mysql.clusterj.core.store;

import com.mysql.clusterj.ColumnType;

public interface Column {

    public String getName();

    public ColumnType getType();

    public boolean isPrimaryKey();

    public boolean isPartitionKey();

    public String getCharsetName();

    public int getCharsetNumber();

    public int getLength();

    public int getPrefixLength();

    public int getColumnId();

    public int getColumnSpace();

    public int getPrecision();

    public int getScale();

    public String decode(byte[] bytes);

    public byte[] encode(String string);

    public boolean getNullable();

}