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// This code has been copied from hadoop-common 0.23.1
package org.apache.bookkeeper.net;

import java.util.List;

import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;

/**
 * An interface that must be implemented to allow pluggable
 * DNS-name/IP-address to RackID resolvers.
 *
 */
@Beta
public interface DNSToSwitchMapping {
    /**
     * Resolves a list of DNS-names/IP-addresses and returns back a list of
     * switch information (network paths). One-to-one correspondence must be
     * maintained between the elements in the lists.
     * Consider an element in the argument list - x.y.com. The switch information
     * that is returned must be a network path of the form /foo/rack,
     * where / is the root, and 'foo' is the switch where 'rack' is connected.
     * Note the hostname/ip-address is not part of the returned path.
     * The network topology of the cluster would determine the number of
     * components in the network path.
     * <p/>
     *
     * If a name cannot be resolved to a rack, the implementation
     * should return {@link NetworkTopology#DEFAULT_RACK}. This
     * is what the bundled implementations do, though it is not a formal requirement
     *
     * @param names the list of hosts to resolve (can be empty)
     * @return list of resolved network paths.
     * If <i>names</i> is empty, the returned list is also empty
     */
    public List<String> resolve(List<String> names);

    /**
     * Reload all of the cached mappings.
     *
     * If there is a cache, this method will clear it, so that future accesses
     * will get a chance to see the new data.
     */
    public void reloadCachedMappings();
}
