giraph-core/src/main/java/org/apache/giraph/factories/ComputationFactory.java

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package org.apache.giraph.factories;

import org.apache.giraph.conf.GiraphConfiguration;
import org.apache.giraph.conf.ImmutableClassesGiraphConfiguration;
import org.apache.giraph.graph.Computation;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;

/**
 * Factory for creating Computations
 *
 * @param <I> Vertex ID
 * @param <V> Vertex Value
 * @param <E> Edge Value
 * @param <M1> Incoming Message Value
 * @param <M2> Outgoing Message Value
 */
public interface ComputationFactory<I extends WritableComparable,
    V extends Writable, E extends Writable, M1 extends Writable,
    M2 extends Writable> {
  /**
   * One time initialization before compute calls.
   * Guaranteed to be called from only one thread before computation begins.
   *
   * @param conf Configuration
   */
  void initialize(ImmutableClassesGiraphConfiguration<I, V, E> conf);

  /**
   * Get Computation object
   *
   * @param conf Configuration
   * @return Computation
   */
  Computation<I, V, E, M1, M2> createComputation(
      ImmutableClassesGiraphConfiguration<I, V, E> conf);

  /**
   * Check that the Configuration passed in is setup correctly to run a job.
   *
   * @param conf Configuration to check.
   */
  void checkConfiguration(
      ImmutableClassesGiraphConfiguration<I, V, E> conf);

  /**
   * Get name of this particular computation
   *
   * @param conf Configuration
   * @return String name of computation
   */
  String computationName(GiraphConfiguration conf);
}