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package org.apache.kylin.source;

import java.io.Closeable;

import org.apache.kylin.metadata.model.IBuildable;
import org.apache.kylin.metadata.model.TableDesc;

/**
 * Represents a kind of source to Kylin, like Hive.
 */
public interface ISource extends Closeable {

    /** 
     * Return an explorer to sync table metadata from the data source.
     */
    ISourceMetadataExplorer getSourceMetadataExplorer();

    /**
     * Return an adaptor that implements specified interface as requested by the build engine.
     * The IMRInput in particular, is required by the MR build engine.
     */
    <I> I adaptToBuildEngine(Class<I> engineInterface);

    /**
     * Return a ReadableTable that can iterate through the rows of given table.
     */
    IReadableTable createReadableTable(TableDesc tableDesc);

    /**
     * Give the source a chance to enrich a SourcePartition before build start.
     * Particularly, Kafka source use this chance to define start/end offsets within each partition.
     */
    SourcePartition enrichSourcePartitionBeforeBuild(IBuildable buildable, SourcePartition srcPartition);

    /**
     * Return an object that is responsible for deploying sample (CSV) data to the source database.
     * For testing purpose.
     */
    ISampleDataDeployer getSampleDataDeployer();
}
