/**
   * Generate primary block by encoding all the metadata of the primary block and copy to primary
   * block writeable buffer.
   *
   * @param bundle Bundle to generate
   * @param xmit_blocks xmit_blocks of the bundle
   * @param block Primary block of the bundle to generate and write to the writeable buffer
   */
  public void generate_primary(final Bundle bundle, BlockInfoVec xmit_blocks, BlockInfo block) {

    // point at the local dictionary
    Dictionary dict = xmit_blocks.dict();
    int primary_len = 0; // total length of the primary block
    PrimaryBlock primary = new PrimaryBlock();

    primary_len = get_primary_len(bundle, dict, primary);

    block.set_contents(new SerializableByteBuffer(primary_len));

    block.set_data_length((int) primary.block_length_value());
    block.set_data_offset((int) (primary_len - primary.block_length_value()));
    /*
     * Advance buf and decrement len as we go through the process.
     */
    IByteBuffer buf = block.writable_contents();
    int len = primary_len;

    Log.d(TAG, String.format("generating primary: length %s", primary_len));

    // Stick the version number in the first byte.
    buf.put((byte) BundleProtocol.CURRENT_VERSION);
    len -= 1;

    len -= write_sdnv(primary.processing_flags(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.block_length(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.dest_scheme_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.dest_ssp_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.source_scheme_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.source_ssp_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.replyto_scheme_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.replyto_ssp_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.custodian_scheme_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.custodian_ssp_offset(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(bundle.creation_ts().seconds(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(bundle.creation_ts().seqno(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(bundle.expiration(), buf);
    len -= write_sdnv(primary.dictionary_length(), buf);

    // Add the dictionary.
    Log.d(TAG, "Current Buf: " + buf.position());
    Log.d(TAG, "Dict length: " + dict.dict_length());
    Log.d(TAG, "Dict length: " + dict.dict_length());
    buf.put(dict.dict());
    // memcpy(buf, dict->dict(), dict->length());
    //        buf += dict->length();
    len -= dict.dict_length();
    Log.d(TAG, "Preparing len:" + len);
    /*
     * If the bundle is a fragment, stuff in SDNVs for the fragment
     * offset and original length.
     */

    if (bundle.is_fragment()) {
      len -= write_sdnv(bundle.frag_offset(), buf);
      Log.d(TAG, "Preparing len:" + len);

      len -= write_sdnv(bundle.orig_length(), buf);
      Log.d(TAG, "Preparing len:" + len);
    }
    /*
     * Asuming that get_primary_len is written correctly, len should
     * now be zero since we initialized it to primary_len at the
     * beginning of the function.
     */

    buf.position(0);
    assert (len == 0) : TAG + ": len not ==0";
    Log.e(TAG, "Current Len: " + len);
  }