MustNewObjectDecoder creates a new encoding or it panics.

MustNewSegmentDecoder creates a new encoding or it panics.

NewObjectDecoder returns a Decoder given the passed string.

NewSegmentDecoder returns a Decoder given the passed string.

CurrentEncoding is a string representing the encoding that all new blocks should be created with.

AllEncodings is used for testing.

ObjectDecoder is used to work with opaque byte slices that contain trace data in the backend.

SegmentDecoder is used by the distributor/ingester to aggregate and pass segments of traces.