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

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;

import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.comm.IFrameWriter;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.context.IHyracksTaskContext;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.dataflow.value.RecordDescriptor;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAppender;

/**
 *
 */
public interface IClusteredAggregatorDescriptorFactory extends Serializable {

    IAggregatorDescriptor createAggregator(IHyracksTaskContext ctx, RecordDescriptor inRecordDescriptor,
            RecordDescriptor outRecordDescriptor, int[] keyFields, final int[] keyFieldsInPartialResults,
            IFrameWriter resultWriter, ByteBuffer outputFrame, FrameTupleAppender appender) throws HyracksDataException;

}