protected WritableRecordData(Type t) 
{
    super(t);
}

Constructor used by the writable records

Parameters:

t - the biff type of this record

 protected WritableRecordData(Record t) 
{
    super(t);
}

Constructor used when reading a record

Parameters:

t - the raw data read from the biff file

 public final byte[] getBytes() 
{
    byte[] data = getData();
    int dataLength = data.length;
    // Don't the call the automatic continuation code for now
    //    Assert.verify(dataLength < = maxRecordLength - 4);
    // If the bytes length is greater than the max record length
    // then split out the data set into continue records
    if (data.length  > maxRecordLength - 4)
    {
      dataLength = maxRecordLength - 4;
      data = handleContinueRecords(data);
    }
    byte[]  bytes = new byte[data.length + 4];
    System.arraycopy(data, 0, bytes, 4, data.length);
    IntegerHelper.getTwoBytes(getCode(), bytes, 0);
    IntegerHelper.getTwoBytes(dataLength, bytes, 2);
    return bytes;
}

Used when writing out records. This portion of the method handles the biff code and the length of the record and appends on the data retrieved from the subclasses

 abstract protected byte[] getData()
Abstract method called by the getBytes method.  Subclasses implement
this method to incorporate their specific binary data - excluding the
biff code and record length, which is handled by this class