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18
19 package org.apache.giraph.io;
20
21 import java.io.IOException;
22
23 import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
24 import org.apache.hadoop.io.WritableComparable;
25 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;
26
27 /**
28 * Implement to output the graph after the computation. It is modeled
29 * directly after the Hadoop OutputFormat.
30 * ImmutableClassesGiraphConfiguration is available
31 *
32 * It's guaranteed that whatever parameters are set in the configuration are
33 * also going to be available in all method arguments related to this output
34 * format (context in createVertexWriter, checkOutputSpecs and
35 * getOutputCommitter; methods invoked on VertexWriter and OutputCommitter).
36 * So if backing output format relies on some parameters from configuration,
37 * you can safely set them for example in
38 * {@link #setConf(org.apache.giraph.conf.ImmutableClassesGiraphConfiguration)}.
39 *
40 * @param <I> Vertex index value
41 * @param <V> Vertex value
42 * @param <E> Edge value
43 */
44 @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
45 public abstract class VertexOutputFormat<
46 I extends WritableComparable, V extends Writable,
47 E extends Writable> extends
48 OutputFormat<I, V, E> {
49 /**
50 * Create a vertex writer for a given split. The framework will call
51 * {@link VertexWriter#initialize(TaskAttemptContext)} before
52 * the split is used.
53 *
54 * @param context the information about the task
55 * @return a new vertex writer
56 * @throws IOException
57 * @throws InterruptedException
58 */
59 public abstract VertexWriter<I, V, E> createVertexWriter(
60 TaskAttemptContext context) throws IOException, InterruptedException;
61 }