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package org.apache.pig;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;


/**
* This interface is used to implement functions to write records
* from a dataset.
* 
* @author database-systems@research.yahoo
*
*/

public interface StoreFunc {
    
    /**
     * Specifies the OutputStream to write to. This will be called before
     * store(Tuple) is invoked.
     * 
     * @param os The stream to write tuples to.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public abstract void bindTo(OutputStream os) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Write a tuple the output stream to which this instance was
     * previously bound.
     * 
     * @param f the tuple to store.
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public abstract void putNext(Tuple f) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Do any kind of post processing because the last tuple has been
     * stored. DO NOT CLOSE THE STREAM in this method. The stream will be
     * closed later outside of this function.
     * 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public abstract void finish() throws IOException;

    
}