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  package org.apache.hadoop.chukwa;
  
  
  import java.io.DataOutput;
  import java.io.IOException;
  import org.apache.hadoop.chukwa.datacollection.adaptor.*;
  
  /**
   * A chunk is a sequence of bytes at a particular logical offset in a stream,
   * and containing one or more "records". Chunks have various metadata, such as
   * source, format, and pointers to record boundaries within the chunk.
   * 
   */
  public interface Chunk {
  
    // these conceptually are really network addresses
    public String getSource();
  
    public void setSource(String logSource);
  
    /**
     * Get the name of the stream that this Chunk is a chunk of
     * 
     * @return the name of this stream; e.g. file name
     */
    public String getStreamName();
  
    public void setStreamName(String streamName);
    
    // These describe the format of the data buffer
    public String getDataType();
  
    public void setDataType(String t);
  
    /**
     * @return the user data in the chunk
     */
    public byte[] getData();
  
    /**
     * @param logEvent the user data in the chunk
     */
    public void setData(byte[] logEvent);
  
    /**
     * get/set the <b>end</b> offsets of records in the buffer.
     * 
     * We use end, rather than start offsets, since the first start offset is
     * always 0, but the last end offset specifies how much of the buffer is
     * valid.
     * 
     * More precisely, offsets[i] is the offset in the Chunk of the last byte of
     * record i in this chunk.
     * 
     * @return a list of record end offsets
     */
    public int[] getRecordOffsets();
  
    public void setRecordOffsets(int[] offsets);
  
    /**
     * @return the byte offset of the first byte not in this chunk.
     * 
     *         We pick this convention so that subtracting sequence IDs yields
     *         length.
     *         
     *         Furthermore, seqID - length = first byte pos.
     */
    public long getSeqID();
  
    public void setSeqID(long l);
  
    /**
     * Retrieve a reference to the adaptor that sent this event. Used by
     * LocalAgent and Connectors to deliver acks to the appropriate place.
     */
    public Adaptor getInitiator();
  
    /**
     * Estimate the size of this Chunk on the wire, assuming each char of metadata
     * takes two bytes to serialize. This is pessimistic.
    * 
    * @return size in bytes that this Chunk might take once serialized.
    */
   public int getSerializedSizeEstimate();
 
   /**
    * @return tags.
    * 
    */
   public String getTags();
 
   /**
    * Add tag.
    * 
    */
   public void addTag(String tag);
 
   /**
    * Returns the value of a single tag, assuming tags are of the form
    * tagname="val"
    * @param tagName the tag to return
    * @return null if not matched.
    */
   public String getTag(String tagName);
   
   public void write(DataOutput data) throws IOException;
 }