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package org.apache.phoenix.iterate;

import org.apache.phoenix.expression.aggregator.Aggregator;
import org.apache.phoenix.schema.tuple.Tuple;


/**
 * 
 * Interface for scanners that either do aggregation
 * or delegate to scanners that do aggregation.
 *
 * 
 * @since 0.1
 */
public interface AggregatingResultIterator extends ResultIterator {
    /**
     * Provides a means of re-aggregating a result row. For
     * scanners that need to look ahead (i.e. {@link org.apache.phoenix.iterate.OrderedAggregatingResultIterator}
     * @param result the row to re-aggregate
     * @return Aggregator[] results
     */
    Aggregator[] aggregate(Tuple result);
}