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ASF GitHub Bot commented on CARBONDATA-297:
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Github user ravipesala commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-carbondata/pull/229#discussion_r83130319
--- Diff: processing/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/processing/newflow/DataLoadProcessorStep.java ---
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package org.apache.carbondata.processing.newflow;
+
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+import org.apache.carbondata.processing.newflow.exception.CarbonDataLoadingException;
+
+/**
+ * This base interface for data loading. It can do transformation jobs as per the implementation.
+ *
+ */
+public interface DataLoadProcessorStep {
+
+ /**
+ * The output meta for this step. The data returns from this step is as per this meta.
+ * @return
+ */
+ DataField[] getOutput();
+
+ /**
+ * Intialization process for this step.
+ * @param configuration
+ * @param child
+ * @throws CarbonDataLoadingException
+ */
+ void intialize(CarbonDataLoadConfiguration configuration, DataLoadProcessorStep child) throws
+ CarbonDataLoadingException;
+
+ /**
+ * Tranform the data as per the implemetation.
+ * @return Iterator of data
+ * @throws CarbonDataLoadingException
+ */
+ Iterator<Object[]> execute() throws CarbonDataLoadingException;
+
+ /**
+ * Any closing of resources after step execution can be done here.
+ */
+ void finish();
--- End diff --
It should be called in both failure and success cases. So i will rename it to `close`
> 2. Add interfaces for data loading.
> -----------------------------------
>
> Key: CARBONDATA-297
> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CARBONDATA-297> Project: CarbonData
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Reporter: Ravindra Pesala
> Assignee: Ravindra Pesala
> Fix For: 0.2.0-incubating
>
>
> Add the major interface classes for data loading so that the following jiras can use this interfaces to implement it.
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