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18  
19  package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io;
20  
21  import java.io.IOException;
22  
23  import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
24  import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceStability;
25  import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Cell;
26  
27  /**
28   * Accepts a stream of Cells. This can be used to build a block of cells during compactions
29   * and flushes, or to build a byte[] to send to the client. This could be backed by a
30   * List<KeyValue>, but more efficient implementations will append results to a
31   * byte[] to eliminate overhead, and possibly encode the cells further.
32   * <p>To read Cells, use {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.CellScanner}
33   * @see org.apache.hadoop.hbase.CellScanner
34   */
35  @InterfaceAudience.Private
36  @InterfaceStability.Evolving
37  public interface CellOutputStream {
38    /**
39     * Implementation must copy the entire state of the Cell. If the written Cell is modified
40     * immediately after the write method returns, the modifications must have absolutely no effect
41     * on the copy of the Cell that was added in the write.
42     * @param cell Cell to write out
43     * @throws IOException
44     */
45    void write(Cell cell) throws IOException;
46  
47    /**
48     * Let the implementation decide what to do.  Usually means writing accumulated data into a
49     * byte[] that can then be read from the implementation to be sent to disk, put in the block
50     * cache, or sent over the network.
51     * @throws IOException
52     */
53    void flush() throws IOException;
54  }