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class Hint

Represents a hint item in a Bitcask hint file.

Attributes:

Name Type Description
tstamp UUID

The timestamp associated with the key record as uuid7.
key_sz int

The size of the key in bytes.
value_sz int

The size of the value in bytes.
value_pos int

The position of the value within the corresponding data file.
key bytes

The key associated with the data value.
Source code in src/py_bitcask/bitcask.py 
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@dataclass
class Hint:
    """
    Represents a hint item in a Bitcask hint file.

    Attributes:
        tstamp (uuid.UUID): The timestamp associated with the key record as uuid7.
        key_sz (int): The size of the key in bytes.
        value_sz (int): The size of the value in bytes.
        value_pos (int): The position of the value within the corresponding data file.
        key (bytes): The key associated with the data value.
    """

    tstamp: Union[uuid.UUID, str, int, bytes]
    key_sz: int
    value_sz: int
    value_pos: int
    key: bytes