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| |
| package org.apache.carbondata.processing.loading.parser; |
| |
| /** |
| * Parse the data according to implementation, The implementation classes can be struct, array or |
| * map datatypes. |
| * It remains thread safe as the state of implementation class should not change while |
| * calling @{@link GenericParser#parse(Object)} method |
| */ |
| public interface GenericParser<E> { |
| |
| /** |
| * Parse the data as per the delimiter |
| * @param data |
| * @return |
| */ |
| E parse(Object data); |
| |
| /** |
| * This is used in case of hive where the object is already parsed to Object. |
| * So this method will just return the corresponding complex object without parsing the data. |
| * |
| * @param data The data to be parsed. |
| * @return rawData |
| */ |
| E parseRaw(Object data); |
| |
| } |