org.kitesdk.data
Interface MetadataProvider

All Superinterfaces:

org.kitesdk.data.spi.MetadataProvider

Deprecated. will be moved in 0.14.0; moved to service provider interface.

@Deprecated
@NotThreadSafe
public interface MetadataProvider
extends org.kitesdk.data.spi.MetadataProvider

A service provider interface for metadata system plugins.

You can write implementations of DatasetRepository against this interface and, by extension, can store dataset metadata information contained in the DatasetDescriptor in a system of your choosing.

Implementations of MetadataProvider typically are not thread-safe; that is, the behavior when accessing a single instance from multiple threads is undefined.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface org.kitesdk.data.spi.MetadataProvider

create, delete, exists, list, load, update