src/java/org/apache/hcatalog/mapreduce/OutputFormatContainer.java

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package org.apache.hcatalog.mapreduce;

import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.OutputFormat;
import org.apache.hcatalog.data.HCatRecord;

/**
 *  This container class is used to wrap OutputFormat implementations and augment them with
 *  behavior necessary to work with HCatalog (ie metastore updates, hcatalog delegation tokens, etc).
 *  Containers are also used to provide storage specific implementations of some HCatalog features (ie dynamic partitioning).
 *  Hence users wishing to create storage specific implementations of HCatalog features should implement this class and override
 *  HCatStorageHandler.getOutputFormatContainer(OutputFormat outputFormat) to return the implementation.
 *  By default DefaultOutputFormatContainer is used, which only implements the bare minimum features HCatalog features
 *  such as partitioning isn't supported.
 */
abstract class OutputFormatContainer extends OutputFormat<WritableComparable<?>, HCatRecord> {
    private org.apache.hadoop.mapred.OutputFormat<? super WritableComparable<?>, ? super Writable> of;

    /**
     * @param of OutputFormat this instance will contain
     */
    public OutputFormatContainer(org.apache.hadoop.mapred.OutputFormat<? super WritableComparable<?>, ? super Writable> of) {
        this.of = of;
    }

    /**
     * @return underlying OutputFormat
     */
    public org.apache.hadoop.mapred.OutputFormat getBaseOutputFormat() {
        return of;
    }

}