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

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package org.apache.hadoop.dfs;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.VersionedProtocol;

/*****************************************************************************
 * Protocol that a secondary NameNode uses to communicate with the NameNode.
 * It's used to get part of the name node state
 *****************************************************************************/
interface NamenodeProtocol extends VersionedProtocol {
  /**
   * 1: changed the serialization in DatanodeInfo
   */
  public static final long versionID = 1L;

  /** Get a list of blocks belonged to <code>datanode</code>
    * whose total size is equal to <code>size</code>
   * @param datanode  a data node
   * @param size      requested size
   * @return          a list of blocks & their locations
   * @Exception RemoteException if size is less than or equal to 0 or
                                   datanode does not exist
   */
  public BlocksWithLocations getBlocks(DatanodeInfo datanode, long size)
  throws IOException;

}