/**
* AnalyzerBeans
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
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* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
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* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
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* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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*/
package org.eobjects.analyzer.beans.api;
import javax.inject.Inject;
/**
* An {@link OutputRowCollector} is a consumer of output rows from
* {@link Transformer}s.
*
* Usually {@link Transformer}s don't need to interact directly with an
* {@link OutputRowCollector}, because the returned values of the
* {@link Transformer#transform(org.eobjects.analyzer.data.InputRow)} method
* automatically get's channeled to the {@link OutputRowCollector} by the
* framework.
*
* But some advanced {@link Transformer}s may have a need to put several rows
* into the stream of output rows, and for this, a {@link Transformer} can
* inject an {@link OutputRowCollector} in order to generate multiple records.
*
* {@link OutputRowCollector} can be injected into {@link Transformer}s using
* the {@link Provided} and {@link Inject} annotations.
*/
public interface OutputRowCollector {
/**
* Puts transformed values into an output row.
*
* @param values
* an array of output values, equivalent to the return type of
* {@link Transformer#transform(org.eobjects.analyzer.data.InputRow)}
*/
public void putValues(Object... values);
}