Github user cloud-fan commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/19136#discussion_r137593873
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sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/v2/reader/ReadTask.java ---
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+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.sources.v2.reader;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * A read task returned by a data source reader and is responsible to
create the data reader.
+ * The relationship between `ReadTask` and `DataReader` is similar to
`Iterable` and `Iterator`.
+ *
+ * Note that, the read task will be serialized and sent to executors, then
the data reader will be
+ * created on executors and do the actual reading.
+ */
+public interface ReadTask<T> extends Serializable {
+ /**
+ * The preferred locations for this read task to run faster, but Spark
can't guarantee that this
+ * task will always run on these locations. Implementations should make
sure that it can
+ * be run on any location.
+ */
+ default String[] preferredLocations() {
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This API matches the `RDD.preferredLocations` directly, I'll add more
documents here.
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