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+/*
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+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.arrow.consumers;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.VarCharVector;
+import org.apache.avro.io.Decoder;
+
+/**
+ * Consumer which consume string type values from avro decoder.
+ * Write the data to {@link VarCharVector}.
+ */
+public class AvroStringConsumer extends BaseAvroConsumer<VarCharVector> {
+
+ private ByteBuffer cacheBuffer;
+
+ /**
+ * Instantiate a AvroStringConsumer.
+ */
+ public AvroStringConsumer(VarCharVector vector) {
+ super(vector);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void consume(Decoder decoder) throws IOException {
+ // cacheBuffer is initialized null and create in the first consume,
+ // if its capacity < size to read, decoder will create a new one with new capacity.
+ cacheBuffer = decoder.readBytes(cacheBuffer);
+ vector.setSafe(currentIndex++, cacheBuffer, 0, cacheBuffer.limit());
+ }
+}