Github user jackylk commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-carbondata/pull/229#discussion_r83018479
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processing/src/main/java/org/apache/carbondata/processing/newflow/DataLoadProcessorStep.java
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+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;
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I think `execute()` is called for every parallel unit of the input, right?
For example, when using spark to load from dataframe, `execute()` is called for
every spark partition (execute one task for one partition). When loading from
CSV HDFS file, `execute()` is called for every HDFS block. So I do not think
returning array of iterator is required.
The loading process of carbon in every executor, some of the step can be
parallelized, but sort step need to be synchronized (potential bottle net),
since we need datanode-scope sorting. Am I correct?
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