hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/protocol/JournalProtocol.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.protocol;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSConfigKeys;
import org.apache.hadoop.ipc.VersionedProtocol;
import org.apache.hadoop.security.KerberosInfo;

/**
 * Protocol used to journal edits to a remote node. Currently,
 * this is used to publish edits from the NameNode to a BackupNode.
 */
@KerberosInfo(
    serverPrincipal = DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY,
    clientPrincipal = DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_USER_NAME_KEY)
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface JournalProtocol extends VersionedProtocol {
  public static final long versionID = 1L;

  /**
   * Journal edit records.
   * This message is sent by the active name-node to the backup node
   * via {@code EditLogBackupOutputStream} in order to synchronize meta-data
   * changes with the backup namespace image.
   * 
   * @param registration active node registration
   * @param firstTxnId the first transaction of this batch
   * @param numTxns number of transactions
   * @param records byte array containing serialized journal records
   */
  public void journal(NamenodeRegistration registration,
                      long firstTxnId,
                      int numTxns,
                      byte[] records) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Notify the BackupNode that the NameNode has rolled its edit logs
   * and is now writing a new log segment.
   * @param registration the registration of the active NameNode
   * @param txid the first txid in the new log
   */
  public void startLogSegment(NamenodeRegistration registration,
      long txid) throws IOException;
}