OutputFormatProvider.java

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package co.cask.cdap.api.data.batch;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Interface to be implemented by datasets used as output of a MapReduce.
 */
public interface OutputFormatProvider {

  /**
   * @return the class name of the output format to use.
   */
  String getOutputFormatClassName();

  /**
   * @return the configuration properties that the output format expects to
   *         find in the Hadoop configuration.
   */
  Map<String, String> getOutputFormatConfiguration();

}