src/hdfs/org/apache/hadoop/dfs/ClientDatanodeProtocol.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.dfs;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.VersionedProtocol;

/** An client-datanode protocol for block recovery
 */
interface ClientDatanodeProtocol extends VersionedProtocol {
  public static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(ClientDatanodeProtocol.class);

  /**
   * 1: start of time
   */
  public static final long versionID = 1L;

  /** Start generation-stamp recovery for specified block
   * @param block the specified block
   * @param DatanodeInfo the list of possible locations of specified block
   * @return the new blockid if recovery successful and the generation stamp
   * got updated as part of the recovery, else returns null if the block id
   * not have any data and the block was deleted.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  Block recoverBlock(Block block, DatanodeInfo[] targets) throws IOException;
}