/*
 *                  Eoulsan development code
 *
 * This code may be freely distributed and modified under the
 * terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or
 * later and CeCILL-C. This should be distributed with the code.
 * If you do not have a copy, see:
 *
 *      http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.txt
 *      http://www.cecill.info/licences/Licence_CeCILL-C_V1-en.txt
 *
 * Copyright for this code is held jointly by the Genomic platform
 * of the Institut de Biologie de l'École normale supérieure and
 * the individual authors. These should be listed in @author doc
 * comments.
 *
 * For more information on the Eoulsan project and its aims,
 * or to join the Eoulsan Google group, visit the home page
 * at:
 *
 *      http://outils.genomique.biologie.ens.fr/eoulsan
 *
 */

package fr.ens.biologie.genomique.eoulsan.splitermergers;

import fr.ens.biologie.genomique.eoulsan.EoulsanException;
import fr.ens.biologie.genomique.eoulsan.core.Parameter;
import fr.ens.biologie.genomique.eoulsan.data.DataFile;
import fr.ens.biologie.genomique.eoulsan.data.DataFormat;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * This interface define a splitter.
 *
 * @author Laurent Jourdren
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface Merger {

  /**
   * Get the format related to the splitter.
   *
   * @return a DataFormat object
   */
  DataFormat getFormat();

  /**
   * Configure the merger.
   *
   * @param conf configuration
   * @throws EoulsanException if the configuration is invalid
   */
  void configure(Set<Parameter> conf) throws EoulsanException;

  /**
   * Merger data.
   *
   * @param inFileIterator iterator over DataFile to merger
   * @param outFile output DataFile
   * @throws IOException if an error occurs while split data
   */
  void merge(Iterator<DataFile> inFileIterator, DataFile outFile) throws IOException;
}
