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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Cell;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.CellSink;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.ShipperListener;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
/**
* Specifies methods needed to add elements to a Bloom filter and serialize the
* resulting Bloom filter as a sequence of bytes.
*/
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface BloomFilterWriter extends BloomFilterBase, CellSink, ShipperListener {
/** Compact the Bloom filter before writing metadata & data to disk. */
void compactBloom();
/**
* Get a writable interface into bloom filter meta data.
*
* @return a writable instance that can be later written to a stream
*/
Writable getMetaWriter();
/**
* Get a writable interface into bloom filter data (the actual Bloom bits).
* Not used for compound Bloom filters.
*
* @return a writable instance that can be later written to a stream
*/
Writable getDataWriter();
/**
* Returns the previous cell written by this writer
* @return the previous cell
*/
Cell getPrevCell();
}