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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.thrift;

import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.thrift.TException;

/**
 * An interface for TProtocols that need to have properties passed in to
 * initialize them. e.g., separators for TCTLSeparatedProtocol. If there was a
 * regex like deserializer, the regex could be passed in in this manner.
 */
public interface ConfigurableTProtocol {
  /**
   * Initialize the TProtocol.
   * 
   * @param conf
   *          System properties
   * @param tbl
   *          table properties
   * @throws TException
   */
  void initialize(Configuration conf, Properties tbl) throws TException;

}
