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package org.apache.storm.windowing;

import java.io.Serializable;
import org.apache.storm.tuple.Tuple;

/**
 * Interface to be implemented for extracting timestamp from a tuple.
 */
public interface TimestampExtractor extends Serializable {
    /**
     * Return the tuple timestamp indicating the time when the event happened.
     *
     * @param tuple the tuple
     * @return the timestamp
     */
    long extractTimestamp(Tuple tuple);
}