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+/*
+ * 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.spark
+
+import org.apache.spark.executor.TaskMetrics
+import org.apache.spark.serializer.Serializer
+
+
+private[spark] abstract class ShuffleFetcher {
+
+  /**
+   * Fetch the shuffle outputs for a given ShuffleDependency.
+   * @return An iterator over the elements of the fetched shuffle outputs.
+   */
+  def fetch[T](shuffleId: Int, reduceId: Int, metrics: TaskMetrics,
+      serializer: Serializer = SparkEnv.get.serializerManager.default): Iterator[T]
+
+  /** Stop the fetcher */
+  def stop() {}
+}