Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5526#discussion_r28455069 --- Diff: sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/sources/interfaces.scala --- @@ -197,3 +233,69 @@ trait InsertableRelation { trait CatalystScan { def buildScan(requiredColumns: Seq[Attribute], filters: Seq[Expression]): RDD[Row] } + +/** + * ::Experimental:: + * [[OutputWriter]] is used together with [[FSBasedRelation]] for persisting rows to the + * underlying file system. An [[OutputWriter]] instance is created when a new output file is + * opened. This instance is used to persist rows to this single output file. + */ +@Experimental +trait OutputWriter { + /** + * Persists a single row. Invoked on the executor side. + */ + def write(row: Row): Unit --- End diff -- what's in this row -- does it include the partitioning column(s)?
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