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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * 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.vector.dictionary;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.FieldVector;
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.compare.VectorEqualsVisitor;
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.ArrowType;
+import org.apache.arrow.vector.types.pojo.DictionaryEncoding;
+
+/**
+ * A dictionary (integer to Value mapping) that is used to facilitate
+ * dictionary encoding compression.
+ */
+public class Dictionary {
+
+ private final DictionaryEncoding encoding;
+ private final FieldVector dictionary;
+
+ public Dictionary(FieldVector dictionary, DictionaryEncoding encoding) {
+ this.dictionary = dictionary;
+ this.encoding = encoding;
+ }
+
+ public FieldVector getVector() {
+ return dictionary;
+ }
+
+ public DictionaryEncoding getEncoding() {
+ return encoding;
+ }
+
+ public ArrowType getVectorType() {
+ return dictionary.getField().getType();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return "Dictionary " + encoding + " " + dictionary;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean equals(Object o) {
+ if (this == o) {
+ return true;
+ }
+ if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ Dictionary that = (Dictionary) o;
+ return Objects.equals(encoding, that.encoding) &&
+ new VectorEqualsVisitor().vectorEquals(that.dictionary, dictionary);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public int hashCode() {
+ return Objects.hash(encoding, dictionary);
+ }
+}