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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A generic abstract class to support reading edits log data from 
 * persistent storage.
 * 
 * It should stream bytes from the storage exactly as they were written
 * into the #{@link EditLogOutputStream}.
 */
abstract class EditLogInputStream implements JournalStream, Closeable {
  /**
   * Close the stream.
   * @throws IOException if an error occurred while closing
   */
  public abstract void close() throws IOException;

  /** 
   * Read an operation from the stream
   * @return an operation from the stream or null if at end of stream
   * @throws IOException if there is an error reading from the stream
   */
  public abstract FSEditLogOp readOp() throws IOException;

  /** 
   * Get the layout version of the data in the stream.
   * @return the layout version of the ops in the stream.
   * @throws IOException if there is an error reading the version
   */
  public abstract int getVersion() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Get the "position" of in the stream. This is useful for 
   * debugging and operational purposes.
   *
   * Different stream types can have a different meaning for 
   * what the position is. For file streams it means the byte offset
   * from the start of the file.
   *
   * @return the position in the stream
   */
  public abstract long getPosition();

  /**
   * Return the size of the current edits log.
   */
  abstract long length() throws IOException;
}
