yihua commented on a change in pull request #3741:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/3741#discussion_r726799705



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File path: hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/data/HoodieData.java
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+
+package org.apache.hudi.common.data;
+
+import org.apache.hudi.common.function.SerializableFunction;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+/**
+ * An abstraction for a data collection of objects in type T to store the 
reference
+ * and do transformation.
+ *
+ * @param <T> type of object.
+ */
+public abstract class HoodieData<T> implements Serializable {
+  /**
+   * @return the collection of objects.
+   */
+  public abstract Object get();
+
+
+  /**
+   * @return whether the collection is empty.
+   */
+  public abstract boolean isEmpty();
+
+  /**
+   * Caches the data.
+   *
+   * @param properties config in properties.
+   */
+  public abstract void persist(Properties properties);

Review comment:
       I put it here to abstract the common logic in compaction so that 
caching-related logic does not have to be in engine-specific helpers, to 
simplify the logic.  For Flink, this is just No-OP in the `HoodieListData` 
implementation.  WDYT?




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