/**
* Copyright (C) 2014-2016 LinkedIn Corp. (pinot-core@linkedin.com)
*
* 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,
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package com.linkedin.pinot.core.query.aggregation.groupby;
import com.linkedin.pinot.core.operator.blocks.TransformBlock;
/**
* Interface class for executing the actual group-by operation.
*/
public interface GroupByExecutor {
/**
* Initializations that need to be performed before process can be called.
*/
void init();
/**
* Performs the actual group-by aggregation on the given transform block.
*
* @param transformBlock Block to process
*/
void process(TransformBlock transformBlock);
/**
* Post processing (if any) to be done after all docIdSets have been processed, and
* before getResult can be called.
*/
void finish();
/**
* Returns the result of group-by aggregation, ensures that 'finish' has been
* called before calling getResult().
*
* @return Result of aggregation group-by.
*/
AggregationGroupByResult getResult();
}