/*
Copyright 2019 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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*/

package metric

import (
	"strings"
)

// Family represents a set of metrics with the same name and help text.
type Family struct {
	Name    string
	Metrics []*Metric
}

// ByteSlice returns the given Family in its string representation.
func (f Family) ByteSlice() []byte {
	b := strings.Builder{}
	for _, m := range f.Metrics {
		b.WriteString(f.Name)
		m.Write(&b)
	}

	return []byte(b.String())
}