protected AbstractType<?> validateComparator(int i, ByteBuffer bb) throws MarshalException
{
AbstractType<?> comparator = null;
if (bb.remaining() < 2)
throw new MarshalException("Not enough bytes to header of the comparator part of component " + i);
int header = ByteBufferUtil.readShortLength(bb);
if ((header & 0x8000) == 0)
{
if (bb.remaining() < header)
throw new MarshalException("Not enough bytes to read comparator name of component " + i);
ByteBuffer value = ByteBufferUtil.readBytes(bb, header);
try
{
comparator = TypeParser.parse(ByteBufferUtil.string(value));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// we'll deal with this below since comparator == null
}
}
else
{
comparator = aliases.get((byte)(header & 0xFF));
}
if (comparator == null)
throw new MarshalException("Cannot find comparator for component " + i);
else
return comparator;
}