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package eu.stratosphere.nephele.jobmanager.splitassigner;

import eu.stratosphere.core.io.InputSplit;
import eu.stratosphere.nephele.executiongraph.ExecutionGroupVertex;
import eu.stratosphere.nephele.executiongraph.ExecutionVertex;

/**
 * The input split assigner interface must be implemented by every component which is supposed to dynamically offer
 * input splits to the input vertices of a job at runtime.
 * 
 */
public interface InputSplitAssigner {

	/**
	 * Registers an input vertex with the input split assigner.
	 * 
	 * @param groupVertex
	 *        the input vertex to register
	 */
	void registerGroupVertex(ExecutionGroupVertex groupVertex);

	/**
	 * Unregisters an input vertex from the input split assigner. All resources allocated to the input vertex are freed
	 * as part of this operation.
	 * 
	 * @param groupVertex
	 *        the input vertex to unregister
	 */
	void unregisterGroupVertex(ExecutionGroupVertex groupVertex);

	/**
	 * Returns the next input split that shall be consumed by the given input vertex.
	 * 
	 * @param vertex
	 *        the vertex for which the next input split to be consumed shall be determined
	 * @return the next input split to be consumed or null if no more splits shall be consumed by the given
	 *         vertex
	 */
	InputSplit getNextInputSplit(ExecutionVertex vertex);
}