spork-master/src/org/apache/pig/StoreResources.java
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package org.apache.pig;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.pig.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.pig.classification.InterfaceStability;

/**
 * This interface allow StoreFunc to specify resources needed
 * in distributed cache. The resources can be on dfs (getCacheFiles)
 * or locally (getShipFiles)
 * @since Pig 0.14
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Public
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface StoreResources {
    /**
     * Allow a StoreFunc to specify a list of files it would like placed in the distributed 
     * cache.
     * The default implementation returns null.
     * @return A list of files
     */
    public List<String> getCacheFiles();

    /**
     * Allow a StoreFunc to specify a list of files located locally and would like to ship to backend 
     * (through distributed cache). Check for {@link FuncUtils} for utility function to facilitate it
     * The default implementation returns null.
     * @return A list of files
     */
    public List<String> getShipFiles();
}
