package edu.brown.benchmark.ycsb.distributions;
/**
* Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
* may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You
* may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
* implied. See the License for the specific language governing
* permissions and limitations under the License. See accompanying
* LICENSE file.
*/
/**
* An expression that generates a sequence of string values, following some distribution (Uniform, Zipfian, Sequential, etc.)
*/
public abstract class Generator
{
/**
* Generate the next string in the distribution.
*/
public abstract String nextString();
/**
* Return the previous string generated by the distribution; e.g., returned from the last nextString() call.
* Calling lastString() should not advance the distribution or have any side effects. If nextString() has not yet
* been called, lastString() should return something reasonable.
*/
public abstract String lastString();
}