ReplicationService.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.Server;
import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;

/**
 * Gateway to Cluster Replication.  
 * Used by {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer}.
 * One such application is a cross-datacenter
 * replication service that can keep two hbase clusters in sync.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface ReplicationService {

  /**
   * Initializes the replication service object.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public void initialize(Server rs, FileSystem fs, Path logdir,
                         Path oldLogDir) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Start replication services.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public void startReplicationService() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Stops replication service.
   */
  public void stopReplicationService();
}