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package org.apache.crunch;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.crunch.types.Converter;
import org.apache.crunch.types.PType;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;

/**
 * A {@code Source} represents an input data set that is an input to one or more
 * MapReduce jobs.
 * 
 */
public interface Source<T> {

  /**
   * Adds the given key-value pair to the {@code Configuration} instance that is used to read
   * this {@code Source<T></T>}. Allows for multiple inputs to re-use the same config keys with
   * different values when necessary.
   */
  Source<T> inputConf(String key, String value);

  /**
   * Returns the {@code PType} for this source.
   */
  PType<T> getType();

  /**
   * Returns the {@code Converter} used for mapping the inputs from this instance
   * into {@code PCollection} or {@code PTable} values.
   */
  Converter<?, ?, ?, ?> getConverter();
  
  /**
   * Configure the given job to use this source as an input.
   * 
   * @param job
   *          The job to configure
   * @param inputId
   *          For a multi-input job, an identifier for this input to the job
   * @throws IOException
   */
  void configureSource(Job job, int inputId) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Returns the number of bytes in this {@code Source}.
   */
  long getSize(Configuration configuration);
  
  /**
   * Returns the time (in milliseconds) that this {@code Source} was most recently
   * modified (e.g., because an input file was edited or new files were added to
   * a directory.)
   */
  long getLastModifiedAt(Configuration configuration);
}