Github user StefanRRichter commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6208#discussion_r198146426
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flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/jobmaster/slotpool/SchedulingStrategy.java
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+/*
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+ */
+
+package org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.slotpool;
+
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.clusterframework.types.SlotProfile;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmanager.scheduler.Locality;
+import org.apache.flink.runtime.jobmaster.SlotContext;
+
+import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+
+import java.util.function.BiFunction;
+import java.util.function.Function;
+import java.util.function.Predicate;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+/**
+ * Classes that implement this interface provide a method to match objects
to somehow represent slot candidates
+ * against the {@link SlotProfile} that produced the matcher object. A
matching candidate is transformed into a
+ * desired result. If the matcher does not find a matching candidate, it
returns null.
+ */
+public interface SchedulingStrategy {
+
+ /**
+ * This method takes the candidate slots, extracts slot contexts from
them, filters them by the profile
+ * requirements and potentially by additional requirements, and
produces a result from a match.
+ *
+ * @param slotProfile slotProfile for which to find a matching slot
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Indentation looks a bit inconsistent.
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