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<pre><span class="source-line-no">001</span><span id="line-1">/*</span>
<span class="source-line-no">002</span><span id="line-2"> * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one</span>
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<span class="source-line-no">017</span><span id="line-17"> */</span>
<span class="source-line-no">018</span><span id="line-18">package org.apache.hadoop.hbase;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">019</span><span id="line-19"></span>
<span class="source-line-no">020</span><span id="line-20">import java.io.IOException;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">021</span><span id="line-21">import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">022</span><span id="line-22"></span>
<span class="source-line-no">023</span><span id="line-23">/**</span>
<span class="source-line-no">024</span><span id="line-24"> * An interface for iterating through a sequence of cells. Similar to Java's Iterator, but without</span>
<span class="source-line-no">025</span><span id="line-25"> * the hasNext() or remove() methods. The hasNext() method is problematic because it may require</span>
<span class="source-line-no">026</span><span id="line-26"> * actually loading the next object, which in turn requires storing the previous object somewhere.</span>
<span class="source-line-no">027</span><span id="line-27"> * &lt;p&gt;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">028</span><span id="line-28"> * The core data block decoder should be as fast as possible, so we push the complexity and</span>
<span class="source-line-no">029</span><span id="line-29"> * performance expense of concurrently tracking multiple cells to layers above the CellScanner.</span>
<span class="source-line-no">030</span><span id="line-30"> * &lt;p&gt;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">031</span><span id="line-31"> * The {@link #current()} method will return a reference to a Cell implementation. This reference</span>
<span class="source-line-no">032</span><span id="line-32"> * may or may not point to a reusable cell implementation, so users of the CellScanner should not,</span>
<span class="source-line-no">033</span><span id="line-33"> * for example, accumulate a List of Cells. All of the references may point to the same object,</span>
<span class="source-line-no">034</span><span id="line-34"> * which would be the latest state of the underlying Cell. In short, the Cell is mutable.</span>
<span class="source-line-no">035</span><span id="line-35"> * &lt;/p&gt;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">036</span><span id="line-36"> * Typical usage:</span>
<span class="source-line-no">037</span><span id="line-37"> *</span>
<span class="source-line-no">038</span><span id="line-38"> * &lt;pre&gt;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">039</span><span id="line-39"> * while (scanner.advance()) {</span>
<span class="source-line-no">040</span><span id="line-40"> * Cell cell = scanner.current();</span>
<span class="source-line-no">041</span><span id="line-41"> * // do something</span>
<span class="source-line-no">042</span><span id="line-42"> * }</span>
<span class="source-line-no">043</span><span id="line-43"> * &lt;/pre&gt;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">044</span><span id="line-44"> * &lt;p&gt;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">045</span><span id="line-45"> * Often used reading {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Cell}s written by</span>
<span class="source-line-no">046</span><span id="line-46"> * {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.CellOutputStream}.</span>
<span class="source-line-no">047</span><span id="line-47"> */</span>
<span class="source-line-no">048</span><span id="line-48">@InterfaceAudience.Public</span>
<span class="source-line-no">049</span><span id="line-49">public interface CellScanner {</span>
<span class="source-line-no">050</span><span id="line-50"> /** Returns the current Cell which may be mutable */</span>
<span class="source-line-no">051</span><span id="line-51"> Cell current();</span>
<span class="source-line-no">052</span><span id="line-52"></span>
<span class="source-line-no">053</span><span id="line-53"> /**</span>
<span class="source-line-no">054</span><span id="line-54"> * Advance the scanner 1 cell.</span>
<span class="source-line-no">055</span><span id="line-55"> * @return true if the next cell is found and {@link #current()} will return a valid Cell</span>
<span class="source-line-no">056</span><span id="line-56"> * @throws IOException if advancing the scanner fails</span>
<span class="source-line-no">057</span><span id="line-57"> */</span>
<span class="source-line-no">058</span><span id="line-58"> boolean advance() throws IOException;</span>
<span class="source-line-no">059</span><span id="line-59">}</span>
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