/*
    * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: none
    * SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
    */
   
   package dev.metaschema.core.metapath.item.atomic.impl;
   
   import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
   
  import dev.metaschema.core.datatype.adapter.AbstractBinaryAdapter;
  import dev.metaschema.core.metapath.item.atomic.IAnyAtomicItem;
  import edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.NonNull;
  
  /**
   * Represents a binary string of bytes.
   */
  public interface IBinaryItem extends IAnyAtomicItem {
  
    /**
     * Get the "wrapped" byte buffer value.
     *
     * @return the underlying byte buffer value
     */
    @NonNull
    ByteBuffer asByteBuffer();
  
    /**
     * Get the underlying bytes for this item.
     *
     * @return the array of bytes
     */
    @NonNull
    default byte[] asBytes() {
      return AbstractBinaryAdapter.bufferToBytes(asByteBuffer(), true);
    }
  }