/**
* Copyright 2008 - CommonCrawl Foundation
*
* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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*
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*
**/
package org.commoncrawl.hadoop.mergeutils;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
/**
* Extends SpillWriter with the ability to handle RAW (as well as Typed) records
*
* @author rana
*
* @param <KeyType>
* @param <ValueType>
*/
public interface RawDataSpillWriter<KeyType extends WritableComparable, ValueType extends Writable> extends
SpillWriter<KeyType, ValueType> {
/**
* spill a key/value pair in raw format
*
* @param keyData
* @param keyOffset
* @param keyLength
* @param valueData
* @param valueOffset
* @param valueLength
* @throws IOException
*/
void spillRawRecord(byte[] keyData, int keyOffset, int keyLength, byte[] valueData, int valueOffset, int valueLength)
throws IOException;
}