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package org.apache.gobblin.metrics.kafka;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.util.List;


/**
 * Establish a connection to a Kafka cluster and push byte messages to a specified topic.
 */
public interface Pusher<M> extends Closeable {
  /**
   * Push all byte array messages to the Kafka topic.
   * @param messages List of byte array messages to push to Kafka.
   */
  void pushMessages(List<M> messages);

  /**
   * Synchronous version of {@link #pushMessages(List)}.
   * Default implementation just calls {@link #pushMessages(List)}.
   * @param messages List of byte array messages to push to Kafka.
   */
  default void pushMessagesSync(List<M> messages) {
    pushMessages(messages);
  }
}
