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package org.apache.pig;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.OutputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.RecordWriter;
import org.apache.pig.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.pig.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.impl.util.UDFContext;
/**
* StoreFuncs take records from Pig's processing and store them into a data store. Most frequently
* this is an HDFS file, but it could also be an HBase instance, RDBMS, etc.
*/
@InterfaceAudience.Public
@InterfaceStability.Stable
public interface StoreFuncInterface {
/**
* This method is called by the Pig runtime in the front end to convert the
* output location to an absolute path if the location is relative. The
* StoreFuncInterface implementation is free to choose how it converts a relative
* location to an absolute location since this may depend on what the location
* string represent (hdfs path or some other data source).
* The static method {@link LoadFunc#getAbsolutePath} provides a default
* implementation for hdfs and hadoop local file system and it can be used
* to implement this method.
*
* @param location location as provided in the "store" statement of the script
* @param curDir the current working direction based on any "cd" statements
* in the script before the "store" statement. If there are no "cd" statements
* in the script, this would be the home directory -
* /user/
* @return the absolute location based on the arguments passed
* @throws IOException if the conversion is not possible
*/
String relToAbsPathForStoreLocation(String location, Path curDir) throws IOException;
/**
* Return the OutputFormat associated with StoreFuncInterface. This will be called
* on the front end during planning and on the backend during
* execution.
* @return the {@link OutputFormat} associated with StoreFuncInterface
* @throws IOException if an exception occurs while constructing the
* OutputFormat
*
*/
OutputFormat getOutputFormat() throws IOException;
/**
* Communicate to the storer the location where the data needs to be stored.
* The location string passed to the {@link StoreFuncInterface} here is the
* return value of {@link StoreFuncInterface#relToAbsPathForStoreLocation(String, Path)}
* This method will be called in the frontend and backend multiple times. Implementations
* should bear in mind that this method is called multiple times and should
* ensure there are no inconsistent side effects due to the multiple calls.
* {@link #checkSchema(ResourceSchema)} will be called before any call to
* {@link #setStoreLocation(String, Job)}.
*
* @param location Location returned by
* {@link StoreFuncInterface#relToAbsPathForStoreLocation(String, Path)}
* @param job The {@link Job} object
* @throws IOException if the location is not valid.
*/
void setStoreLocation(String location, Job job) throws IOException;
/**
* Set the schema for data to be stored. This will be called on the
* front end during planning if the store is associated with a schema.
* A Store function should implement this function to
* check that a given schema is acceptable to it. For example, it
* can check that the correct partition keys are included;
* a storage function to be written directly to an OutputFormat can
* make sure the schema will translate in a well defined way.
* @param s to be checked
* @throws IOException if this schema is not acceptable. It should include
* a detailed error message indicating what is wrong with the schema.
*/
void checkSchema(ResourceSchema s) throws IOException;
/**
* Initialize StoreFuncInterface to write data. This will be called during
* execution before the call to putNext.
* @param writer RecordWriter to use.
* @throws IOException if an exception occurs during initialization
*/
void prepareToWrite(RecordWriter writer) throws IOException;
/**
* Write a tuple to the data store.
* @param t the tuple to store.
* @throws IOException if an exception occurs during the write
*/
void putNext(Tuple t) throws IOException;
/**
* This method will be called by Pig both in the front end and back end to
* pass a unique signature to the {@link StoreFuncInterface} which it can use to store
* information in the {@link UDFContext} which it needs to store between
* various method invocations in the front end and back end. This is necessary
* because in a Pig Latin script with multiple stores, the different
* instances of store functions need to be able to find their (and only their)
* data in the UDFContext object.
* @param signature a unique signature to identify this StoreFuncInterface
*/
public void setStoreFuncUDFContextSignature(String signature);
/**
* This method will be called by Pig if the job which contains this store
* fails. Implementations can clean up output locations in this method to
* ensure that no incorrect/incomplete results are left in the output location
* @param location Location returned by
* {@link StoreFuncInterface#relToAbsPathForStoreLocation(String, Path)}
* @param job The {@link Job} object - this should be used only to obtain
* cluster properties through {@link Job#getConfiguration()} and not to set/query
* any runtime job information.
*/
void cleanupOnFailure(String location, Job job) throws IOException;
}