Github user yhuai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/14723#discussion_r75586622 --- Diff: sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/aggregate/interfaces.scala --- @@ -389,3 +389,89 @@ abstract class DeclarativeAggregate def right: AttributeReference = inputAggBufferAttributes(aggBufferAttributes.indexOf(a)) } } + +/** + * This traits allow user to define an AggregateFunction which can store **arbitrary** Java objects + * in Aggregation buffer during aggregation of each key group. This trait must be mixed with + * class ImperativeAggregate. --- End diff -- I think at here, we need to emphasize that the buffer is an internal buffer because we will emit this buffer as the result of an aggregate operator.
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