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package org.apache.hadoop.mapred;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.DataInputBuffer;
import org.apache.hadoop.util.Progress;

/**
 * <code>RawKeyValueIterator</code> is an iterator used to iterate over
 * the raw keys and values during sort/merge of intermediate data. 
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
@InterfaceStability.Unstable
public interface RawKeyValueIterator {
    /** 
     * Gets the current raw key.
     * 
     * @return Gets the current raw key as a DataInputBuffer
     * @throws IOException
     */
    DataInputBuffer getKey() throws IOException;

    /** 
     * Gets the current raw value.
     * 
     * @return Gets the current raw value as a DataInputBuffer 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    DataInputBuffer getValue() throws IOException;

    /** 
     * Sets up the current key and value (for getKey and getValue).
     * 
     * @return <code>true</code> if there exists a key/value, 
     *         <code>false</code> otherwise. 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    boolean next() throws IOException;

    /** 
     * Closes the iterator so that the underlying streams can be closed.
     * 
     * @throws IOException
     */
    void close() throws IOException;

    /** Gets the Progress object; this has a float (0.0 - 1.0) 
     * indicating the bytes processed by the iterator so far
     */
    Progress getProgress();
}