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package org.apache.spark.sql.sources.v2.streaming.reader;

/**
 * An abstract representation of progress through a [[MicroBatchReader]] or [[ContinuousReader]].
 * During execution, Offsets provided by the data source implementation will be logged and used as
 * restart checkpoints. Sources should provide an Offset implementation which they can use to
 * reconstruct the stream position where the offset was taken.
 */
public abstract class Offset extends org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.Offset {
    /**
     * A JSON-serialized representation of an Offset that is
     * used for saving offsets to the offset log.
     * Note: We assume that equivalent/equal offsets serialize to
     * identical JSON strings.
     *
     * @return JSON string encoding
     */
    public abstract String json();

    /**
     * Equality based on JSON string representation. We leverage the
     * JSON representation for normalization between the Offset's
     * in memory and on disk representations.
     */
    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (obj instanceof org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.Offset) {
            return this.json().equals(((org.apache.spark.sql.execution.streaming.Offset) obj).json());
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return this.json().hashCode();
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return this.json();
    }
}
