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package com.hazelcast.mapreduce;
import com.hazelcast.nio.serialization.BinaryInterface;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* <p>
* A CombinerFactory implementation is used to build {@link Combiner} instances per key.<br/>
* An implementation needs to be serializable by Hazelcast since it is distributed together with
* the {@link Mapper} implementation to run alongside.
* </p>
*
* @param <KeyIn> key type of the resulting keys
* @param <ValueIn> value type of the incoming values
* @param <ValueOut> value type of the reduced values
* @since 3.2
* @deprecated MapReduce is deprecated and will be removed in 4.0.
* For map aggregations, you can use {@link com.hazelcast.aggregation.Aggregator} on IMap.
* For general data processing, it is superseded by <a href="http://jet.hazelcast.org">Hazelcast Jet</a>.
*/
@Deprecated
@BinaryInterface
public interface CombinerFactory<KeyIn, ValueIn, ValueOut>
extends Serializable {
/**
* Build a new {@link Combiner} instance specific to the supplied key.
*
* @param key key that the new Combiner is build for
* @return a Combiner instance specific for the given key
*/
Combiner<ValueIn, ValueOut> newCombiner(KeyIn key);
}