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| * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the |
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| * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 |
| * |
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| */ |
| |
| package org.apache.hadoop.util; |
| |
| import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience; |
| import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability; |
| |
| /** |
| * A facility for reporting progress. |
| * |
| * <p>Clients and/or applications can use the provided <code>Progressable</code> |
| * to explicitly report progress to the Hadoop framework. This is especially |
| * important for operations which take significant amount of time since, |
| * in-lieu of the reported progress, the framework has to assume that an error |
| * has occured and time-out the operation.</p> |
| */ |
| @InterfaceAudience.Public |
| @InterfaceStability.Stable |
| public interface Progressable { |
| /** |
| * Report progress to the Hadoop framework. |
| */ |
| public void progress(); |
| } |
