sanha commented on a change in pull request #115: [NEMO-96] Modularize 
DataSkewPolicy to use MetricVertex and BarrierVertex
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nemo/pull/115#discussion_r214376120
 
 

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 File path: common/src/main/java/edu/snu/nemo/common/coder/KVDecoderFactory.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 Seoul National University
+ *
+ * Licensed 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 edu.snu.nemo.common.coder;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+/**
+ * A kv decoder factory object which generates kv decoders that decode byte 
streams to values of type {@code T}.
+ * To avoid generating instance-based coder such as Spark serializer for every 
decoding,
+ * user need to explicitly instantiate an kv decoder instance and use it.
+ *
+ * @param <T> element type.
+ */
+public interface KVDecoderFactory<T> extends DecoderFactory {
+  @Override
+  KVDecoder<T> create(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException;
+  DecoderFactory getKeyDecoderFactory();
+
+  /**
+   * Interface of the Decoder.
+   *
+   * @param <T> element type.
+   */
+  interface KVDecoder<T> extends Decoder<T> {
+    /**
+     * Decodes the given value onto the specified input stream.
+     * It has to be able to decode the given stream consequently by calling 
this method repeatedly.
+     * Because the user can want to keep a single input stream and 
continuously concatenate elements,
+     * the input stream should not be closed.
+     *
+     * @throws IOException if fail to decode
+     */
+    T decode() throws IOException;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Dummy kv decoder factory.
+   */
+  KVDecoderFactory DUMMY_KVDECODER_FACTORY = new DummyKVDecoderFactory();
+
+  /**
+   * Dummy kv decoder factory implementation which is not supposed to be used.
+   */
+  final class DummyKVDecoderFactory implements KVDecoderFactory {
+    private final DecoderFactory keyDecoderFactory = null;
 
 Review comment:
   How about use dummy decoder factory instead of `null`?

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