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+// Copyright (c) 2011-present, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved.
+// This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+// LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+// of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+
+package org.rocksdb;
+
+/**
+ * RocksObject is an implementation of {@link AbstractNativeReference} which
+ * has an immutable and therefore thread-safe reference to the underlying
+ * native C++ RocksDB object.
+ * <p>
+ * RocksObject is the base-class of almost all RocksDB classes that have a
+ * pointer to some underlying native C++ {@code rocksdb} object.</p>
+ * <p>
+ * The use of {@code RocksObject} should always be preferred over
+ * {@link RocksMutableObject}.</p>
+ */
+public abstract class RocksObject extends AbstractImmutableNativeReference {
+
+ /**
+ * An immutable reference to the value of the C++ pointer pointing to some
+ * underlying native RocksDB C++ object.
+ */
+ protected final long nativeHandle_;
+
+ protected RocksObject(final long nativeHandle) {
+ super(true);
+ this.nativeHandle_ = nativeHandle;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Deletes underlying C++ object pointer.
+ */
+ @Override
+ protected void disposeInternal() {
+ disposeInternal(nativeHandle_);
+ }
+
+ protected abstract void disposeInternal(final long handle);
+}