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package com.hazelcast.mapreduce.aggregation;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * The PropertyExtractor interface is used in suppliers to retrieve values from
 * input value types and extract or transform them to some other type to be used
 * in aggregations.
 * <p/>
 * For Java 6 and 7:
 * <pre>
 * public class EmployeeIntTransformer implements PropertyExtractor<Employee, Integer> {
 *   public Integer extract(Employee value) {
 *       return value.getSalaryPerMonth();
 *   }
 * }
 *
 * Supplier supplier = Supplier.all(new EmployeeIntTransformer());
 * </pre>
 * <p/>
 * Or in Java 8:
 * <pre>
 * Supplier supplier = Supplier.all((value) -> value.getSalaryPerMonth());
 * </pre>
 *
 * @param <ValueIn>  the input value type
 * @param <ValueOut> the extracted / transformed value type
 * @since 3.3
 * @deprecated Use fast-aggregations {@link com.hazelcast.aggregation.Aggregator}
 */
@Deprecated
public interface PropertyExtractor<ValueIn, ValueOut>
        extends Serializable {

    /**
     * This method is called for every value that is about to be supplied to
     * an aggregation (maybe filtered through an {@link com.hazelcast.query.Predicate}
     * or {@link com.hazelcast.mapreduce.KeyPredicate}). It is responsible to either
     * transform the input value to a type of {@link ValueOut} or to extract an
     * attribute of this type.
     *
     * @param value the input value
     * @return the extracted / transformed value
     */
    ValueOut extract(ValueIn value);
}