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package org.apache.cassandra.db.rows;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.apache.cassandra.db.Slice;

public interface SliceableUnfilteredRowIterator extends UnfilteredRowIterator
{
    /**
     * Move forward (resp. backward if isReverseOrder() is true for the iterator) in
     * the iterator and return an iterator over the Unfiltered selected by the provided
     * {@code slice}.
     * 
     * Please note that successive calls to {@code slice} are allowed provided the
     * slice are non overlapping and are passed in clustering (resp. reverse clustering) order.
     * However, {@code slice} is allowed to leave the iterator in an unknown state and there
     * is no guarantee over what a call to {@code hasNext} or {@code next} will yield after
     * a call to {@code slice}. In other words, for a given iterator, you should either use
     * {@code slice} or {@code hasNext/next} but not both.
     */
    public Iterator slice(Slice slice);
}