HadoopDataAdapter.java

package mil.nga.giat.geowave.mapreduce;

import mil.nga.giat.geowave.core.store.adapter.DataAdapter;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;

/**
 * This is an interface that extends data adapter to allow map reduce jobs to
 * easily convert hadoop writable objects to and from the geowave native
 * representation of the objects. This allow for generally applicable map reduce
 * jobs to be written using base classes for the mapper that can handle
 * translations.
 * 
 * @param <T>
 *            the native type
 * @param <W>
 *            the writable type
 */
public interface HadoopDataAdapter<T, W extends Writable> extends
		DataAdapter<T>
{
	public HadoopWritableSerializer<T, W> createWritableSerializer();
}