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package org.apache.cassandra.db.marshal;

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.sql.Types;

import org.apache.cassandra.db.Column;
import org.apache.cassandra.db.context.CounterContext;
import org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil;

public abstract class AbstractCommutativeType extends AbstractType<Long>
{
    public boolean isCommutative()
    {
        return true;
    }

    public Long compose(ByteBuffer bytes)
    {
        return CounterContext.instance().total(bytes);
    }

    public ByteBuffer decompose(Long value)
    {
        return ByteBufferUtil.bytes(value);
    }

    /**
     * create commutative column
     */
    public abstract Column createColumn(ByteBuffer name, ByteBuffer value, long timestamp);
}
