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package org.apache.flink.test.windowing.sessionwindows;

/**
 * Basic interface for event generators
 *
 * @param <K> session key type
 * @param <E> session event type
 */
public interface EventGenerator<K, E> {

	/**
	 * Only call this method if hasMoreEvents() is true and canGenerateEventAtWatermark(...) is true.
	 *
	 * @param globalWatermark the current global watermark to consider for event generation
	 * @return a generated event
	 */
	E generateEvent(long globalWatermark);

	/**
	 * @param globalWatermark the current global watermark to consider for event generation
	 * @return true if, given the current global watermark, the generator can produce events. this might temporarily be
	 * false, e.g. if a generator wants to produce late events w.r.t. a session, but the global watermark did not yet
	 * advance to the point that timestamps from the session would be late
	 */
	boolean canGenerateEventAtWatermark(long globalWatermark);

	/**
	 * @return true if, in general and for some global watermark, more events can been produced
	 */
	boolean hasMoreEvents();

	/**
	 * @return the watermark that tracks this generator's progress
	 */
	long getLocalWatermark();

	/**
	 * @param globalWatermark the current global watermark to consider for event generation
	 * @return a successor for this generator if hasMoreEvents() is false
	 */
	EventGenerator<K, E> getNextGenerator(long globalWatermark);

	/**
	 * @return key for the generated events
	 */
	K getKey();
}