/**
* AnalyzerBeans
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.eobjects.analyzer.job.runner;
import org.eobjects.analyzer.job.AnalysisJob;
/**
* Central component for executing/running AnalysisJobs. Typically an
* AnalysisRunner will do all the complicated work of traversing the
* AnalysisJob, setting up filters, transformers and analyzers and kick off row
* processing.
*
* Typeically an AnalysisRunner will be able to utilize multithreading and will
* therefore be able to return much earlier than when the job is finished.
* Therefore the result of the run(...) method is a <i>Future</i>, which means
* that it is a reference to a future result. You can use the future to ask if
* the result is ready or it is possible to wait/block untill it is done.
*
*
*/
public interface AnalysisRunner {
public AnalysisResultFuture run(AnalysisJob job);
}