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

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;

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

/**
 * This interface defines how to write metadata related to data to be stored.
 * If a given store function does not implement this interface, it will be assumed that it
 * is unable to record metadata about the associated data.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Public
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface StoreMetadata {

    /**
     * Store statistics about the data being written.
     * @param stats statistics to be recorded
     * @param location Location as returned by 
     * {@link LoadFunc#relativeToAbsolutePath(String, org.apache.hadoop.fs.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.  
     * @throws IOException 
     */
    void storeStatistics(ResourceStatistics stats, String location, Job job) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Store schema of the data being written
     * @param schema Schema to be recorded
     * @param location Location as returned by 
     * {@link LoadFunc#relativeToAbsolutePath(String, org.apache.hadoop.fs.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.  
     * @throws IOException 
     */
    void storeSchema(ResourceSchema schema, String location, Job job) throws IOException;
}
