src/org/apache/pig/OverwritableStoreFunc.java

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package org.apache.pig;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigOutputFormat;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.physicalLayer.relationalOperators.POStore;

/**
 * A {@link StoreFunc} should implement this interface to enable overwriting its
 * store/output location if it already exists.
 */
public interface OverwritableStoreFunc {
    /**
     * This method is called by the Pig runtime to determine whether to ignore output validation problems
     * (see {@link PigOutputFormat#checkOutputSpecs} and {@link InputOutputFileValidator#validate}) and to delete the existing output.
     * @return whether to overwrite the store/output location of this {@link StoreFunc}.
     */
    public boolean shouldOverwrite();

    /**
     * This method is called to cleanup the store/output location of this {@link StoreFunc}.
     * 
     * @param store The {@link POStore} object to get info about the store
     * operator for this store function.
     * @param job The {@link Job} object to get job related information.
     * @throws IOException if an exception occurs during the cleanup.
     */    
    public void cleanupOutput(POStore store, Job job) throws IOException;
}