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package org.apache.orc;

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.vector.VectorizedRowBatch;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * The interface for writing ORC files.
 */
public interface Writer extends Closeable {

  /**
   * Get the schema for this writer
   * @return the file schema
   */
  TypeDescription getSchema();

  /**
   * Add arbitrary meta-data to the ORC file. This may be called at any point
   * until the Writer is closed. If the same key is passed a second time, the
   * second value will replace the first.
   * @param key a key to label the data with.
   * @param value the contents of the metadata.
   */
  void addUserMetadata(String key, ByteBuffer value);

  /**
   * Add a row batch to the ORC file.
   * @param batch the rows to add
   */
  void addRowBatch(VectorizedRowBatch batch) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Flush all of the buffers and close the file. No methods on this writer
   * should be called afterwards.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  void close() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Return the deserialized data size. Raw data size will be compute when
   * writing the file footer. Hence raw data size value will be available only
   * after closing the writer.
   *
   * @return raw data size
   */
  long getRawDataSize();

  /**
   * Return the number of rows in file. Row count gets updated when flushing
   * the stripes. To get accurate row count this method should be called after
   * closing the writer.
   *
   * @return row count
   */
  long getNumberOfRows();

  /**
   * Write an intermediate footer on the file such that if the file is
   * truncated to the returned offset, it would be a valid ORC file.
   * @return the offset that would be a valid end location for an ORC file
   */
  long writeIntermediateFooter() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Fast stripe append to ORC file. This interface is used for fast ORC file
   * merge with other ORC files. When merging, the file to be merged should pass
   * stripe in binary form along with stripe information and stripe statistics.
   * After appending last stripe of a file, use appendUserMetadata() to append
   * any user metadata.
   * @param stripe - stripe as byte array
   * @param offset - offset within byte array
   * @param length - length of stripe within byte array
   * @param stripeInfo - stripe information
   * @param stripeStatistics - stripe statistics (Protobuf objects can be
   *                         merged directly)
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public void appendStripe(byte[] stripe, int offset, int length,
      StripeInformation stripeInfo,
      OrcProto.StripeStatistics stripeStatistics) throws IOException;

  /**
   * When fast stripe append is used for merging ORC stripes, after appending
   * the last stripe from a file, this interface must be used to merge any
   * user metadata.
   * @param userMetadata - user metadata
   */
  public void appendUserMetadata(List userMetadata);

  /**
   * Get the statistics about the columns in the file. The output of this is
   * based on the time at which it is called. It shall use all of the currently
   * written data to provide the statistics.
   *
   * Please note there are costs involved with invoking this method and should
   * be used judiciously.
   *
   * @return the information about the column
   */
  ColumnStatistics[] getStatistics() throws IOException;
}