/*
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information
 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package org.apache.flink.streaming.api.connector.sink2;

import org.apache.flink.annotation.Experimental;
import org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2.Sink;
import org.apache.flink.api.connector.sink2.SinkWriter;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.datastream.DataStream;

/** Allows expert users to implement a custom topology before {@link SinkWriter}. */
@Experimental
public interface WithPreWriteTopology<InputT> extends Sink<InputT> {

    /**
     * Adds an arbitrary topology before the writer. The topology may be used to repartition the
     * data.
     *
     * @param inputDataStream the stream of input records.
     * @return the custom topology before {@link SinkWriter}.
     */
    DataStream<InputT> addPreWriteTopology(DataStream<InputT> inputDataStream);
}
