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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FieldSchema;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.FileMetadataExprType;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.MetaException;
import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.io.sarg.SearchArgument;

/**
 * The proxy interface that metastore uses for variety of QL operations (metastore can't depend
 * on QL because QL depends on metastore; creating metastore-client module would be a proper way
 * to solve this problem).
 */
public interface PartitionExpressionProxy {

  /**
   * Converts serialized Hive expression into filter in the format suitable for Filter.g.
   * @param expr Serialized expression.
   * @return The filter string.
   */
  public String convertExprToFilter(byte[] expr) throws MetaException;

  /**
   * Filters the partition names via serialized Hive expression.
   * @param partColumns Partition columns in the underlying table.
   * @param expr Serialized expression.
   * @param defaultPartitionName Default partition name from job or server configuration.
   * @param partitionNames Partition names; the list is modified in place.
   * @return Whether there were any unknown partitions preserved in the name list.
   */
  boolean filterPartitionsByExpr(List partColumns,
      byte[] expr, String defaultPartitionName, List partitionNames) throws MetaException;

  /**
   * Determines the file metadata type from input format of the source table or partition.
   * @param inputFormat Input format name.
   * @return The file metadata type.
   */
  FileMetadataExprType getMetadataType(String inputFormat);

  /**
   * Gets a separate proxy that can be used to call file-format-specific methods.
   * @param type The file metadata type.
   * @return The proxy.
   */
  FileFormatProxy getFileFormatProxy(FileMetadataExprType type);

  /**
   * Creates SARG from serialized representation.
   * @param expr SARG, serialized as Kryo.
   * @return SARG.
   */
  SearchArgument createSarg(byte[] expr);
}