/**
* DataCleaner (community edition)
* 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.datacleaner.output;
/**
* Represents an object which can be used to write rows of data to some output
* (typically a database or a file).
*/
public interface OutputWriter {
/**
* Creates a new row in the output.
*
* @return
*/
OutputRow createRow();
/**
* Closes the output writing sequence. Implementing classes should flush and
* close any outputstreams etc. here.
*/
void close();
}