net.openhft.chronicle.wire.converter

Annotation Type Words

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Target(value={FIELD,PARAMETER})
public @interface Words

Annotates fields or parameters to signify that the long value represents a string consisting of 0 to 6 words using a base 2048 encoding. This is mainly utilized for converting between long representations and word sequences for better human readability.

The actual conversion between long values and words is handled by the WordsLongConverter class.

See Also:

WordsLongConverter, LongConverter

Field Detail

INSTANCE

public static final LongConverter INSTANCE

An instance of the WordsLongConverter to be used for converting between long values and their word representations.