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package org.apache.sqoop.mapreduce.db;

import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.InputSplit;

/**
 * DBSplitter will generate DBInputSplits to use with DataDrivenDBInputFormat.
 * DataDrivenDBInputFormat needs to interpolate between two values that
 * represent the lowest and highest valued records to import. Depending
 * on the data-type of the column, this requires different behavior.
 * DBSplitter implementations should perform this for a data type or family
 * of data types.
 */
public interface DBSplitter {

  /**
   * Given a ResultSet containing one record (and already advanced to that
   * record) with two columns (a low value, and a high value, both of the same
   * type), determine a set of splits that span the given values.
   */
  List<InputSplit> split(Configuration conf, ResultSet results, String colName)
      throws SQLException;
}
