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package com.fasterxml.jackson.core.util; /** * This is a small utility class, whose main functionality is to allow * simple reuse of raw byte/char buffers. It is usually used through * <code>ThreadLocal</code> member of the owning class pointing to * instance of this class through a <code>SoftReference</code>. The * end result is a low-overhead GC-cleanable recycling: hopefully * ideal for use by stream readers. */ public class BufferRecycler { public final static int DEFAULT_WRITE_CONCAT_BUFFER_LEN = 2000; public enum ByteBufferType { READ_IO_BUFFER(4000) /** * Buffer used for temporarily storing encoded content; used * for example by UTF-8 encoding writer */ ,WRITE_ENCODING_BUFFER(4000) /** * Buffer used for temporarily concatenating output; used for * example when requesting output as byte array. */ ,WRITE_CONCAT_BUFFER(2000) /** * Buffer used for concatenating binary data that is either being * encoded as base64 output, or decoded from base64 input. * * @since 2.1 */ ,BASE64_CODEC_BUFFER(2000) ; protected final int size; ByteBufferType(int size) { this.size = size; } } public enum CharBufferType { TOKEN_BUFFER(2000) // Tokenizable input ,CONCAT_BUFFER(2000) // concatenated output ,TEXT_BUFFER(200) // Text content from input ,NAME_COPY_BUFFER(200) // Temporary buffer for getting name characters ; protected final int size; CharBufferType(int size) { this.size = size; } } final protected byte[][] _byteBuffers = new byte[ByteBufferType.values().length][]; final protected char[][] _charBuffers = new char[CharBufferType.values().length][]; public BufferRecycler() { } public final byte[] allocByteBuffer(ByteBufferType type) { int ix = type.ordinal(); byte[] buffer = _byteBuffers[ix]; if (buffer == null) { buffer = balloc(type.size); } else { _byteBuffers[ix] = null; } return buffer; } public final void releaseByteBuffer(ByteBufferType type, byte[] buffer) { _byteBuffers[type.ordinal()] = buffer; } public final char[] allocCharBuffer(CharBufferType type) { return allocCharBuffer(type, 0); } public final char[] allocCharBuffer(CharBufferType type, int minSize) { if (type.size > minSize) { minSize = type.size; } int ix = type.ordinal(); char[] buffer = _charBuffers[ix]; if (buffer == null || buffer.length < minSize) { buffer = calloc(minSize); } else { _charBuffers[ix] = null; } return buffer; } public final void releaseCharBuffer(CharBufferType type, char[] buffer) { _charBuffers[type.ordinal()] = buffer; } /* /********************************************************** /* Actual allocations separated for easier debugging/profiling /********************************************************** */ private byte[] balloc(int size) { return new byte[size]; } private char[] calloc(int size) { return new char[size]; } }