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

import org.apache.flink.annotation.Internal;

/**
 * Interface for working with time and timers.
 *
 * <p>This is the internal version of {@link org.apache.flink.streaming.api.TimerService}
 * that allows to specify a key and a namespace to which timers should be scoped.
 *
 * @param <N> Type of the namespace to which timers are scoped.
 */
@Internal
public interface InternalTimerService<N> {

	/** Returns the current processing time. */
	long currentProcessingTime();

	/** Returns the current event-time watermark. */
	long currentWatermark();

	/**
	 * Registers a timer to be fired when processing time passes the given time. The namespace
	 * you pass here will be provided when the timer fires.
	 */
	void registerProcessingTimeTimer(N namespace, long time);

	/**
	 * Deletes the timer for the given key and namespace.
	 */
	void deleteProcessingTimeTimer(N namespace, long time);

	/**
	 * Registers a timer to be fired when processing time passes the given time. The namespace
	 * you pass here will be provided when the timer fires.
	 */
	void registerEventTimeTimer(N namespace, long time);

	/**
	 * Deletes the timer for the given key and namespace.
	 */
	void deleteEventTimeTimer(N namespace, long time);
}