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20 package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver;
21
22 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.KeyValue;
23
24 import java.io.Closeable;
25 import java.io.IOException;
26 import java.util.List;
27
28 /**
29 * Internal scanners differ from client-side scanners in that they operate on
30 * HStoreKeys and byte[] instead of RowResults. This is because they are
31 * actually close to how the data is physically stored, and therefore it is more
32 * convenient to interact with them that way. It is also much easier to merge
33 * the results across SortedMaps than RowResults.
34 *
35 * <p>Additionally, we need to be able to determine if the scanner is doing
36 * wildcard column matches (when only a column family is specified or if a
37 * column regex is specified) or if multiple members of the same column family
38 * were specified. If so, we need to ignore the timestamp to ensure that we get
39 * all the family members, as they may have been last updated at different
40 * times.
41 */
42 public interface InternalScanner extends Closeable {
43 /**
44 * Grab the next row's worth of values.
45 * @param results return output array
46 * @return true if more rows exist after this one, false if scanner is done
47 * @throws IOException e
48 */
49 public boolean next(List<KeyValue> results) throws IOException;
50
51 /**
52 * Grab the next row's worth of values with a limit on the number of values
53 * to return.
54 * @param result return output array
55 * @param limit limit on row count to get
56 * @return true if more rows exist after this one, false if scanner is done
57 * @throws IOException e
58 */
59 public boolean next(List<KeyValue> result, int limit) throws IOException;
60
61 /**
62 * Closes the scanner and releases any resources it has allocated
63 * @throws IOException
64 */
65 public void close() throws IOException;
66 }