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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.hive.service.cli.operation;
+
+import java.util.Set;
+
+
+public interface TableTypeMapping {
+  /**
+   * Map client's table type name to hive's table type
+   * @param clientTypeName
+   * @return
+   */
+  public String mapToHiveType (String clientTypeName);
+
+  /**
+   * Map hive's table type name to client's table type
+   * @param clientTypeName
+   * @return
+   */
+  public String mapToClientType (String hiveTypeName);
+
+  /**
+   * Get all the table types of this mapping
+   * @return
+   */
+  public Set<String> getTableTypeNames();
+}