net.fortytwo.flow.Sink Maven / Gradle / Ivy
package net.fortytwo.flow;
import net.fortytwo.ripple.RippleException;
/**
* The next step in a data pipeline.
* Data items which are passed into a Sink may be transformed or passed along verbatim
* to downstream components, or even thrown away;
* a Sink is a black box with respect to upstream components passing data into it.
*
* @param the type of data being passed
*
* @author Joshua Shinavier (http://fortytwo.net)
*/
public interface Sink
{
/**
* Passes a data item into the Sink
* @param t the data item being passed
* @throws RippleException if a data handling error occors
*/
void put( T t ) throws RippleException;
}