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package org.apache.mrql;

import java.io.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.*;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.*;


/** An interface for all MRQL FileInputFormats */
public interface MRQLFileInputFormat {
    /** materialize the input file into a memory Bag */
    public Bag materialize ( final Path path ) throws IOException;

    /** materialize the entire dataset into a Bag
     * @param x the DataSet in HDFS to collect values from
     * @param strip is not used in MapReduce mode
     * @return the Bag that contains the collected values
     */
    public Bag collect ( final DataSet x, boolean strip ) throws Exception;
}