From 8bc2fba3e5038ab47bc75accfea0fa55f6e208f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Brown <jasedbrown@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:23:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add a javadoc comment on VIntCoding function

---
 src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/vint/VIntCoding.java | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/vint/VIntCoding.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/vint/VIntCoding.java
index 67444a917b..d4fdd630ea 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/vint/VIntCoding.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/utils/vint/VIntCoding.java
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ public class VIntCoding
      * Note this method is the same as {@link #readUnsignedVInt(DataInput)},
      * except that we do *not* block if there are not enough bytes in the buffer
      * to reconstruct the value.
+     *
+     * @return -1 if there are not enough bytes in the input to read the value; else, the vint unsigned value.
      */
     public static long readUnsignedVInt(ByteBuf input)
     {