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package edu.uci.ics.pregelix.dataflow.std.base;

import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.ArrayTupleBuilder;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.IFrameTupleReference;

public interface ISerializableAggregateFunction {
    /** should be called each time a new aggregate value is computed */
    public void init(IFrameTupleReference tuple, ArrayTupleBuilder state) throws HyracksDataException;

    public void step(IFrameTupleReference tuple, IFrameTupleReference state) throws HyracksDataException;

    public void finishPartial(IFrameTupleReference state, ArrayTupleBuilder output) throws HyracksDataException;

    public void finishFinal(IFrameTupleReference state, ArrayTupleBuilder output) throws HyracksDataException;
}