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018package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver;
019
020import java.io.IOException;
021
022import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Cell;
023import org.apache.yetus.audience.InterfaceAudience;
024import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.BloomFilterWriter;
025
026/**
027 * A sink of cells that allows appending cells to the Writers that implement it.
028 * {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFile.Writer},
029 * {@link StoreFileWriter}, {@link AbstractMultiFileWriter},
030 * {@link BloomFilterWriter} are some implementors of this.
031 */
032@InterfaceAudience.Private
033public interface CellSink {
034  /**
035   * Append the given cell
036   * @param cell the cell to be added
037   * @throws IOException
038   */
039  void append(Cell cell) throws IOException;
040}