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| |
| package org.apache.kylin.dict; |
| |
| import org.apache.kylin.metadata.model.TblColRef; |
| import org.apache.kylin.source.IReadableTable; |
| |
| /** |
| * To build dictionary, we need a list of distinct values on a column. |
| * For column on lookup table, simply scan the whole table since the table is small. |
| * For column on fact table, the fact table is too big to iterate. So the build |
| * engine will first extract distinct values (by a MR job for example), and |
| * implement this interface to provide the result to DictionaryManager. |
| */ |
| public interface DistinctColumnValuesProvider { |
| |
| /** Return a ReadableTable contains only one column, each row being a distinct value. */ |
| public IReadableTable getDistinctValuesFor(TblColRef col); |
| } |