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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Tag;

/**
 * Interface to convert visibility expressions into Tags for storing along with Cells in HFiles.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Public
@InterfaceStability.Evolving
public interface VisibilityExpressionResolver extends Configurable {

  /**
   * Giving a chance for the initialization.
   */
  void init();

  /**
   * Convert visibility expression into tags to be serialized.
   * @param visExpression the label expression
   * @return The list of tags corresponds to the visibility expression. These tags will be stored
   *         along with the Cells.
   */
  List<Tag> createVisibilityExpTags(String visExpression) throws IOException;
}