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1 | /* | |
2 | * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more | |
3 | * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with | |
4 | * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. | |
5 | * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 | |
6 | * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with | |
7 | * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at | |
8 | * | |
9 | * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 | |
10 | * | |
11 | * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software | |
12 | * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, | |
13 | * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. | |
14 | * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and | |
15 | * limitations under the License. | |
16 | */ | |
17 | ||
18 | package org.apache.commons.pipeline; | |
19 | ||
20 | /** | |
21 | * <p>A Stage represents a set of tasks that can be performed on objects | |
22 | * in a queue, and methods used to communicate with other stages | |
23 | * in a {@link Pipeline}.</p> | |
24 | */ | |
25 | public interface Stage { | |
26 | ||
27 | /** | |
28 | * <p>Initialization takes place when the stage is added to a pipeline. | |
29 | * Implementations of this method should perform any necessary setup that | |
30 | * is required for the driver to be able to correctly run the stage.</p> | |
31 | * <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Since this method is run when the stage is | |
32 | * added to the pipeline, certain information (such as the downstream | |
33 | * feeder for the stage) may not yet be available until the pipeline is | |
34 | * fully constructoed.</p> | |
35 | * @param context the {@link StageContext} within which the stage sill be run | |
36 | */ | |
37 | public void init(StageContext context); | |
38 | ||
39 | /** | |
40 | * Implementations of this method should perform any necessary setup that | |
41 | * needs to be done before any data is processed. | |
42 | * Preprocessing is performed after initialization. | |
43 | * | |
44 | * @throws StageException any checked Exception thrown by the implementation should | |
45 | * be wrapped in a {@link StageException} | |
46 | */ | |
47 | public void preprocess() throws StageException; | |
48 | ||
49 | /** | |
50 | * Implementations of this method should atomically process a single data | |
51 | * object and transfer any feed objects resulting from this processing to | |
52 | * the downstream {@link Feeder}. This {@link Feeder} can be obtained from | |
53 | * the stage context made available during {@link #init initialization}. | |
54 | * | |
55 | * NOTE: Implementations of this method must be thread-safe! | |
56 | * | |
57 | * @param obj an object to be processed | |
58 | * @throws StageException any checked Exception thrown by the implementation should | |
59 | * be wrapped in a {@link StageException} | |
60 | */ | |
61 | public void process(Object obj) throws StageException; | |
62 | ||
63 | /** | |
64 | * Implementations of this method should do any additional processing or | |
65 | * finalization necessary after all data objects have been processed | |
66 | * by the stage. | |
67 | * @throws StageException any checked Exception thrown by the implementation should | |
68 | * be wrapped in a {@link StageException} | |
69 | */ | |
70 | public void postprocess() throws StageException; | |
71 | ||
72 | /** | |
73 | * Implementations of this method should clean up any lingering resources | |
74 | * that might otherwise be left allocated if an exception is thrown during | |
75 | * processing (or pre/postprocessing). | |
76 | */ | |
77 | public void release(); | |
78 | } |