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package nz.org.riskscape.engine.io;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Generic, and slightly wip, interface for creating {@link TupleReader}s and {@link TupleWriter}s
 */
public interface TupleStorage {

  /**
   * @return a {@link TupleWriter} that is a temporary place to store tuples.  So far required for paging large
   * streams out of memory for sorting.  Will be deleted sometime in the future.
   */
  TupleWriter createTemporaryWriter() throws IOException;

  /**
   * @param writer the writer that we want to read tuples from
   * @return a {@link TupleReader} that will return tuples that were written to the given {@link TupleWriter} in the
   * order they were written (FIFO).
   * @throws IOException
   */
  TupleReader getReader(TupleWriter writer) throws IOException;

}
