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package org.apache.samoa.topology;

import org.apache.samoa.core.EntranceProcessor;
import org.apache.samoa.core.Processor;

/**
 * ComponentFactory interface. Provides platform specific components.
 */
public interface ComponentFactory {

  /**
   * Creates a platform specific processing item with the specified processor.
   * 
   * @param processor
   *          contains the logic for this processing item.
   * @return ProcessingItem
   */
  public ProcessingItem createPi(Processor processor);

  /**
   * Creates a platform specific processing item with the specified processor. Additionally sets the parallelism level.
   * 
   * @param processor
   *          contains the logic for this processing item.
   * @param parallelism
   *          defines the amount of instances of this processing item will be created.
   * @return ProcessingItem
   */
  public ProcessingItem createPi(Processor processor, int parallelism);

  /**
   * Creates a platform specific processing item with the specified processor that is the entrance point in the
   * topology. This processing item can either generate a stream of data or connect to an external stream of data.
   * 
   * @param entranceProcessor
   *          contains the logic for this processing item.
   * @return EntranceProcessingItem
   */
  public EntranceProcessingItem createEntrancePi(EntranceProcessor entranceProcessor);

  /**
   * Creates a platform specific stream.
   * 
   * @param sourcePi
   *          source processing item which will provide the events for this stream.
   * @return Stream
   */
  public Stream createStream(IProcessingItem sourcePi);

  /**
   * Creates a platform specific topology.
   * 
   * @param topoName
   *          Topology name.
   * @return Topology
   */
  public Topology createTopology(String topoName);
}