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package org.apache.skywalking.oap.server.core.analysis;

import org.apache.skywalking.oap.server.core.source.Source;

/**
 * SourceDispatcher implementation processes different types of the source. There are two kinds of the source
 * dispatcher. All implementations are doing field values set/get to transfer the data to the streaming process.
 *
 * One is hard coded, which could be found through the hierarchy tree. The other is generated by OAL engine based on the
 * templates insides oal-rt/src/main/resources/code-templates/dispatcher
 *
 * @param <SOURCE> the data type of this dispatcher processes.
 */
public interface SourceDispatcher<SOURCE extends Source> {
    void dispatch(SOURCE source);
}
