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package org.apache.flink.streaming.api.transformations;

import org.apache.flink.annotation.Internal;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
import org.apache.flink.api.dag.Transformation;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.ChainingStrategy;

/**
 * A {@link Transformation} that creates a physical operation. It enables setting {@link
 * ChainingStrategy}.
 *
 * @param <T> The type of the elements that result from this {@code Transformation}
 * @see Transformation
 */
@Internal
public abstract class PhysicalTransformation<T> extends Transformation<T> {

    /**
     * Creates a new {@code Transformation} with the given name, output type and parallelism.
     *
     * @param name The name of the {@code Transformation}, this will be shown in Visualizations and
     *     the Log
     * @param outputType The output type of this {@code Transformation}
     * @param parallelism The parallelism of this {@code Transformation}
     */
    PhysicalTransformation(String name, TypeInformation<T> outputType, int parallelism) {
        super(name, outputType, parallelism);
    }

    /** Sets the chaining strategy of this {@code Transformation}. */
    public abstract void setChainingStrategy(ChainingStrategy strategy);
}
