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package org.apache.atlas.notification;

import java.util.List;
import org.apache.kafka.common.TopicPartition;
import org.apache.atlas.kafka.AtlasKafkaMessage;

/**
 * Atlas notification consumer.  This consumer blocks until a notification can be read.
 *
 * @param <T>  the class type of notifications returned by this consumer
 */
public interface NotificationConsumer<T> {

    /**
     * Commit the offset of messages that have been successfully processed.
     *
     * This API should be called when messages read with {@link #next()} have been successfully processed and
     * the consumer is ready to handle the next message, which could happen even after a normal or an abnormal
     * restart.
     */
    void commit(TopicPartition partition, long offset);

    void close();

    /**
     * Fetch data for the topics from Kafka
     * @param timeoutMilliSeconds poll timeout
     * @return List containing kafka message and partionId and offset.
     */
    List<AtlasKafkaMessage<T>> receive(long timeoutMilliSeconds);
}