/tags/release-0.1-rc2/hive/external/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/primitive/StringObjectInspector.java

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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.primitive;

import org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.objectinspector.PrimitiveObjectInspector;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text;

/**
 * A StringObjectInspector inspects an Object representing a String.
 */
public interface StringObjectInspector extends PrimitiveObjectInspector {

  /**
   * Get the Text representation of the data.
   */
  Text getPrimitiveWritableObject(Object o);

  /**
   * Get the String representation of the data.
   */
  String getPrimitiveJavaObject(Object o);
}