Github user jiajunwang commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/helix/pull/145#discussion_r174323213
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helix-core/src/main/java/org/apache/helix/api/rebalancer/constraint/dataprovider/PartitionQuotaProvider.java
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+package org.apache.helix.api.rebalancer.constraint.dataprovider;
+
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+
+/**
+ * An interface for getting partition quota information.
+ */
+public interface PartitionQuotaProvider {
+
+ /**
+ * @param resource
+ * @param partition
+ * @return The quota that is required by a certain partition in the
specified resource
+ */
+ int getPartitionQuota(String resource, String partition);
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It is.
I'm struggling to make the choice between weight or quota. I named it quota
to avoid confusing with the "constraint weight".
Given we named the constraint weight to importance, let's name it to weight
here.
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