001/** 002 * Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Talend Inc. - www.talend.com 003 * <p> 004 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 007 * <p> 008 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 009 * <p> 010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 014 * limitations under the License. 015 */ 016package org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record; 017 018import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record; 019import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Schema; 020 021/** 022 * Entry point to create records (through builders). 023 */ 024public interface RecordBuilderFactory { 025 026 /** 027 * @return a builder to create a new record and enforce the built record to respect 028 * a static schema. If the entries don't match the schema the build call will fail. 029 */ 030 Record.Builder newRecordBuilder(Schema schema); 031 032 /** 033 * @return a builder to create a new record. 034 */ 035 Record.Builder newRecordBuilder(); 036 037 /** 038 * @param type the schema type. 039 * @return a builder to create a schema. 040 */ 041 Schema.Builder newSchemaBuilder(Schema.Type type); 042 043 /** 044 * @return a builder to create a schema entry. 045 */ 046 Schema.Entry.Builder newEntryBuilder(); 047}