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

import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.util.List;

import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.comm.IFrameWriter;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.api.exceptions.HyracksDataException;
import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.comm.io.FrameTupleAccessor;

public interface ISpillableTable {

    public void close();

    public void reset();

    public int getFrameCount();

    public List<ByteBuffer> getFrames();

    public void sortFrames();

    public boolean insert(FrameTupleAccessor accessor, int tIndex) throws HyracksDataException;

    public void flushFrames(IFrameWriter writer, boolean isPartial) throws HyracksDataException;
}