simpledb.buffer
Interface PageFormatter

All Known Implementing Classes:

BTPageFormatter

public interface PageFormatter

An interface used to initialize a new block on disk. There will be an implementing class for each "type" of disk block.

Author:

Edward Sciore

Method Summary

void	format(Page p) Initializes a page, whose contents will be written to a new disk block.

Method Detail

format

void format(Page p)

Initializes a page, whose contents will be written to a new disk block. This method is called only during the method Buffer.assignToNew(java.lang.String, simpledb.buffer.PageFormatter).

Parameters:

p - a buffer page