Github user chandnisingh commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-malhar/pull/145#discussion_r56754928
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library/src/main/java/com/datatorrent/lib/state/TimeSlicedBucketedState.java ---
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+package com.datatorrent.lib.state;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
+
+import com.datatorrent.netlet.util.Slice;
+
+/**
+ * A type of bucketed state where a bucket's data is further divided into
time buckets. This requires
+ * time per key to figure out which time bucket a particular key belongs
to.
+ * <p/>
+ * The time value eases purging of aged key/value pair.
+ */
+public interface TimeSlicedBucketedState
+{
+ /**
+ * Sets the value of a key in the bucket identified by bucketId. Time is
used to derive which time bucket (within
+ * the main bucket) a key belongs to.
+ *
+ * @param bucketId identifier of the bucket.
+ * @param time time associated with the key.
+ * @param key key
+ * @param value value
+ */
+ void put(long bucketId, long time, Slice key, Slice value);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the value of the key in the bucket identified by bucketId.
This will search for the key in all the
+ * time buckets.</br>
+ *
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The latest value will be returned. Will update the java docs.
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