From d6f755f58afdceaeb66eb9bd915d94ebaa111e81 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: belugabehr <12578579+belugabehr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 22:50:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] AVRO-4052: Inline BufferedBinaryEncoder writeZero method
 (#3145)

---
 .../org/apache/avro/io/BufferedBinaryEncoder.java     | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BufferedBinaryEncoder.java b/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BufferedBinaryEncoder.java
index 376289ec882..35b515ad10a 100644
--- a/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BufferedBinaryEncoder.java
+++ b/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/BufferedBinaryEncoder.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
  * <p/>
  * To change the buffer size, configure the factory instance used to create
  * instances with {@link EncoderFactory#configureBufferSize(int)}
- * 
+ *
  * @see Encoder
  * @see EncoderFactory
  * @see BlockingBinaryEncoder
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ private void flushBuffer() throws IOException {
    * current position and the end. This will not expand the buffer larger than its
    * current size, for writes larger than or near to the size of the buffer, we
    * flush the buffer and write directly to the output, bypassing the buffer.
-   * 
+   *
    * @param num
    * @throws IOException
    */
@@ -175,14 +175,11 @@ public void writeFixed(ByteBuffer bytes) throws IOException {
 
   @Override
   protected void writeZero() throws IOException {
-    writeByte(0);
-  }
-
-  private void writeByte(int b) throws IOException {
+    // inlined, shorter version of writeZero
     if (pos == buf.length) {
       flushBuffer();
     }
-    buf[pos++] = (byte) (b & 0xFF);
+    buf[pos++] = (byte) 0;
   }
 
   @Override